Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Author. Emma Alice Margaret Tennant was one of twelve children, born and bred on just such a Scottish estate as Dunross, and Laura, her favorite sister, was just such a charmer as Octavia. Upon Laura's death, Margot sought consolation in London, slumming, dancing, falling often in love. In 1894 she married a widower, Herbert Henry Asquith.* Her two children are Elizabeth, who married Rumanian Prince Bibesco, and Anthony ("Puffin") who directs cinema...
Every known economic scheme but socialism being convincingly wiped out by stultification in the best Shavian manner, the author then proceeds to establish the necessity, the practicability, of socialism-originating not so much with the Proletariat (the Third International is damned along with Capitalism), but with the great middle class (Fabianism). When with logic and concrete example, he has demonstrated the practicability of gradual nationalization of income, he shows that the great deterrent is not practical but metaphysical : the will to equality...
Paradoxically, this is a highly sophisticated piece of writing, raising the standard of excellent prose Author Beer has already set up in Stephen Crane, Sandoval, The Mauve Decade...
...conventional nature. They were instructed thus-"As to entertainment, DON'T FORGET Governor Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland, in line ... for president, will be principal speaker at the annual banquet. You will have the pleasure of hearing Professor John Erskine, president of the Juilliard School of Music . . . distinguished author of The Private Life of Helen of Troy...
...Pranks (one of the few genuinely comic bits of music ever created) frames in melody the "owl-glass" legends of a fantastic buffoon who once annoyed staunch German burghers; Death and Transfiguration is a profoundly magnificent effort to encompass a theme more holy than most which have engaged its author's attention...