Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...style politician the choice would almost inevitably fall upon him. The Watson handshake is magnificent. The Watson cordiality to constituents, the Watson geniality towards colleagues, are vasty and impressive. The Watson oratory has been variously and unkindly described as "gusty," "oleaginous" and even "blowsy," but its author is undismayed. His every moment is instinct with the dignity of high office. Even in physique he is a great man. His head is large, his neck short, his body ponderable. His hat, his collar, his necktie are all in the grand old tradition. The only small thing about him is the eyes...
Died. Rev. Geoffrey Anketell ("Wood-bine Willie") Studdert-Kennedy, 46, of London, famed & beloved Wartime chaplain, champion of workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption...
...these he should add a title or two of each of the worthwhile living authors: Shaw, Galsworthy, Robinson, Barrie, Moore, Cabell, etc. In selecting these, it is more important to have the particular title he himself prefers rather than the most popular book of an author. First editions of these authors are still obtainable at fairly moderate prices. Hardy, Conrad, and Anatol France, although no longer alive, surely belong with the above-mentioned group, and their work should be represented...
Next comes the most interesting part of his library for the man who aspires to become a serious collector. There is always some one author or subject in which he becomes keenly interested individually; as the classics, poetry, or the theatre. Consider the man interested in the theatre. He can easily acquire first editions of nearly all the few great plays of the last twenty-five years. In collecting these, he is almost certain to find one author whose work will interest him more than the others. Now he is experiencing his first real thrill in the effort to procure...
Perhaps one of the chief virtues of the book, is that it is easy to read--truly an advantage under any conditions and particularly in a popular work. Moreover, the author, escapes, on the whole, the treacherous middle ground of striving to found his historical facts purely upon the trembling quagmire of psychological interpretation. And, happily, he successfully restrains--except for a few lapses--the temptation to be "bright...