Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Generalissimo Degoutte, of the Franco-Belgian forces in the Ruhr, was being driven to his home at Charny, near Lyon, when the car ran up a steep bank, turned turtle, killed the chauffeur. The General escaped. On the same day M. Marcel Prevost, famed French author, was being driven near Montauban when a heavy truck ran into the automobile, smashed it badly, hurt no one. Thus did Providence spare two famed...
John Drink water, author of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Stuart, Oliver Crom well, Robert E. Lee and other dramatic histories, has completed a libretto for an opera, based on the life of Robert Burns, eternal Scots laureate poet. This screed is now in the hands of composer Ernest Austin, an Englishman, known chiefly for his colossal organ tone-poem, Pilgrim's Progress, in twelve huge parts. In the new work, Austin plans to make use of many Scotch folk-tunes, including several of the familiar melodies now associated with Burns' popular lyrics...
...Author. Joseph Hergesheimer went first to a Friends' school in Phil adelphia, later studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Of Quaker descent, his preoccupation has always been with beautiful surfaces, in landscapes, women, old furniture, centuries. A symposium of critics last year voted him America's most important novelist. His works include Mountain Blood, Three Black Pennys, Java Head, The Happy End, Cytherea, The Bright Shawl...
...Author. As one might imagine, Michael Arlen is no Englishman. He plays, dines, dances and drinks with the blither young spirits of Mayfair-the social "Mugs" as he has called them. But he is not of, them. Born on the Danube in Bulgaria, of Armenian parents, he was taken to Manchester, as an infant, educated in schools of the "plebs" and in Switzerland. He became a journalist in London, knew poverty and loneliness...
...York Globe. Excellent! But-without wishing to prejudge the utility of such a body, the creation of which is surely a step in the right direction, it is significant that membership belongs not to the man, but to the job! ... It is ironic and significant that the author of this code is no longer in a position to enforce its practice and that several who took prominent parts in the proceedings are no longer eligible to meet with this gathering...