Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Born at Kiev, Russia, in 1881, John Cournos migrated with his parents to Philadelphia at the age of 10. He was successively factory-hand, newsboy, journalist, author: The Wall, The Mask, Babel. Living now in London, his recreations are: "Reading the Greeks and Elizabethans, watching the folly and wonder of life, playing with pebbles on the beach...
...BLACK HOOD?Thomas Dixon? Appleton ($2.00). Author Dixon blandly and bravely prefaces his story with the suggestion "to the five million members of the new Ku Klux Klan that they read this book." A tale of the original Klan in the days following the Civil War, when it was ordered dissolved, it breathes all the mysterious and sinister significance of the "Invisible Empire," and swirls the reader along with it under its exciting black hoods and white sheets. It stops by the wayside to terrorize one dark-skinned Julius Caesar, self-styled "Apostle ob Sanotification," known to his rivals...
...thought is a young wife who is virtually dragged by the heels into running for Mayor by enthusiastic women friends, who feel that the town's politics need dusting off. In endeavoring to wage a clean campaign she commits most of the sins known to professional office-seekers. The author has very astutely led her to lie, cheat and practically embezzle, while bit by bit her ideals are chipped away...
Marjorie Gateson, playing her first leading role in a non-musical production, proved adequate to the emotional demands made upon her, though in the last act, when she seemed facing ruin, the author made her draw too long a face over...
...King," for such he was in name and fact and fable, is dead. His reign was historic in the development of American private schools. Coming from Gettysburg, an obscure college town in Pennsylvania, achieving his first petty distinction as an author of Buehler's Modern English Grammar, he was suddenly elevated 20 years ago to be the supreme administrator of a new and comparatively small school. When he died, the Hotchkiss School had equals but no superiors in the land, and was one of a group of schools which boasted a pride of spirit and a social discipline comparable...