Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...aviators are grease-smeared, swaggering, circus-like performers-and not papier-mache heroes. Also he does for Berkenmeer what Main Street did for Gopher Prairie. One needs both hands and most of one's toes to count the significant characters in Parachute. As the spokesman for the author, the shrewdly-mad Sayles makes the following deduction...
...Author, young, obscure, is a poet as well as a novelist, and has spent many years as a student in France. Sinclair Lewis was literary godfather to Parachute...
Browning's poem, "Pauline", his first published work, is the most valuable book on exhibition. This particular copy was given by Browning to Sarah Horn Adams, the author of "Nearer My God To Thee" and who was also the Pauline of the poem. A collection of "Bells and Pomegranates" in the eight original parts which was presented to his uncle, Ruben Browning, makes a valuable addition to the collection. There are also corrected proof sheets of this work, showing corrections made by Browning himself...
...Library of Harvard University and dedicated to the memory of America's great Philosopher, the Author...
HIGH GROUND ? Jonathan Brooks ? Bobbs Merrill ($2). Liberally educated in all the finer shades of political corruption, U. S. newsreaders have a ready sympathetic throb for the lone graft fighter. To Author Brooks such a figure looms so large that he ventures to draw the picture of an upstanding, small-city editor with solemn, biblical strokes. James Andrew Marvin, lonely Honest Man, is presented through the reverent chronicles of his five children (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and Ruth). He emerges hard-hitting, high-minded, bad-tempered. Fighting heavily, with more goodwill than technique, he is defeated time...