Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discussed proposals for the U. S. entry into the World Court. ¶Mrs. Coolidge gave her third garden party in a heavy rainstorm. The party was held indoors and on the porticos, and the garden was viewed from a distance. The story got about Washington that Edwin Markham, venerable author attending a White House garden fete, was approached by his handsome hostess who, recognizing him, exclaimed: "How do you do, Mr. Markham? It was so good of you to come." He eyed her appraisingly and asked: "Well, young lady...
Senator Bayard of Delaware suggested that the author of the last quotation had worked as a carpenter at at the age of twelve and without evil result...
...American rodeo at the British Empire Exhibition is not popular with a certain section of the public. John Galsworthy, famed author, and Henry W. Nevinson, international correspondent of The Manchester Guardian, loudly condemned it for its cruelty. Said the latter: "I think that everybody who agrees with our view of the rodeo should take a vow never to go near such a performance. We should appeal to the President of the Exposition, the Prince of Wales, to say he would never go to it and that would be sufficient in itself to stop...
...Author. M. Andre Maurois was born in Normandy, and until after the War he had no opportunity for writing. He celebrated his literary freedom with Les Silences du Colonel Bramble, which received a stupendous reception for a first novel. Then followed Les Discours du Docteur O'Grady and Ni Ange Ni Bete. But his Ariel surpasses all, and M. Maurois has been well called "worthy disciple of Lytton Strachey...
...Dream. What was generally hailed by reviewers as the worst play put on in Manhattan this season sidled in last week. It did not even have the merit of being so atrociously bad that it was funny. It was just dull, inept, feeble, groping, obfuscated. That is all. Author I. K. Davis starts out with an intrinsically interesting premise- a protest against the workaday world that would force a man to the accumulation of money, thus smothering the spark of divine genius. In his play, the young man to whom he attributes genius shows not a flicker of it except...