Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Parallel history of similar emergencies is what is needed", said Lincoln Steffens, journalist, author, student of revolutions, in a talk before members of the Liberal Club and their guests last night. "A knowledge of what has gone before under similar circumstances aids individuals in avoiding past mistakes...
...this volume the author, drawing on the experience, of a long and distinguished career, makes evident to us the value of a knowledge of anthropology--the science of the natural history of man and his culture--to an understanding of our modern life...
This delightfully written biography reveals an unjustly forgotten author and the gay society of the Regency and pre-Victorian days...
Most of these stories have appeared in magazines in the last six years. Collected, they emphasize the author's versatility. He proves himself facile in telling a tale of spinsters in a sparkling seaside village, or one of masculine bitterness in the sinister backwoods. In the first, two old maids are fond of each other, fond of their shop full of cross-stitch samplers, fond of the two little donkeys, Percy and Emily, which trot by every day. Miss Alice is going to marry Mr. Maurice Hunting; she meets him formally to accept his offer of a week...
...make love to her, he scuttled and flapped. In spite of his exertions, one daughter (not the one he had suspected) ran off with the laborite, and the other discovered an unexpected admirer. The discovery, and the confusion of identities smacks of threadbare "literary device," but Mr. Swinnerton (author of Nocturne, The Elder Sister) never fails in charm of atmosphere, virtuosity of human converse...