Word: authority
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain, to the Empire, to free speech, to Parliament. To Britons newly enraged by the German-Soviet Pact, he had been terribly justified. Elder Statesman Churchill expected no cheers for his foresight. He rushed off to have dinner with Harold Nicolson, M.P. (author of Portrait of a Diplomatist, Peacemaking, Dwight Morrow, Small Talk, Curzon: The Last Phase), and then hurried to his country home "Chartwell" in Kent to run his six secretaries ragged and hang on the telephone putting in calls all over Europe. "Now," said he, "Hitler...
Probably no hospital has ever known such concentrated drama as Author Fearing packs in. But the distortions of his picture resemble far more those produced by a microscope than defective mirrors...
...Author. A semi-legendary character, Kenneth Fearing has figured in far more novels than he has written. (The Hospital is his first.) In Albert Halper's Union Square he figures as the drunken poet. But, "Hell," declares Fearing, "I've been a character in some good novels"-meaning W. L. River's The Death of a Young Man, Margery Latimer's This Is My Body...
...Author Boyle's little camel was puppyish, bumptious and a liar. Life had made his hard-working old mother cynical since the Arab driver jerked the ring in her tender mouth whenever she slacked up. She really wanted to eat green grass and drink cool water but, she told the youngest camel, "that's just one of the things that can never possibly be. ... Because your father never took out any life insurance." "What about the caravan of white camels with solid gold hoofs that goes right around the earth?" her son objected. "Hooey," said his hard-Boyled...
...Author Nicolson's sly habit of poking polite fun at pomposity while paying his respects to pompous bigwigs, made many people wonder just how well Author Nicolson and Diplomat Nicolson got along together. Diplomacy leaves little doubt that Author Nicolson takes Diplomat Nicolson very seriously, that though Author Nicolson resigned from the Foreign Affairs Committee in disagreement with Prime Minister Chamberlain after Munich, Diplomat Nicolson has by no means given up Cabinet hopes...