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Word: authorities (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Service is open to guests and friends of the University, but the Senior Class will be expected to attend as the principal participants and the Class Hymn will be sung for the first time. Edward Fuller Fitzhugh Jr., of Boise, Idaho, was announced as the author of the Hymn, which is set to the tune of Albany, or Ancient of Days, as it is usually called...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESIDENT LOWELL TO GIVE SERMON TOMORROW | 6/15/1929 | See Source »

...They shall have ships," murmured Author Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trader Dean | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Odyssey | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...seeing to it no child was born. That beat Stroud, and she added injury to her revenge by giving him good cause to think her unfaithful. That drove him to throttle her, and to drop himself out of the window, thus ending a book which, considering that the author has published five others and should know better by now is not a very good book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Odd Odyssey | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

...Author Tarkington has often before but never more mercilessly demonstrated his knowledge of smalltown wives. In Young Mrs. Greeley he involves two of them in a minor tempest which sends one back to her native village, puts the other also in her place, all because of a cool-eyed modern who is neither wife nor smalltown. Crystal Nelson, first assistant to Cooper, the Big Boss, hears that Mr. Greeley's rapid rise in the N. K. U. (National Kitchen Utensils) is due to young Mrs. Greeley's influence with the boss. She traces the gossip to Aurelia, young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Again, Tarkington | 6/10/1929 | See Source »

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