Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Believing that to the influence of Rasputin all Russia's misfortunes in the early part of the War could be traced, the author-prince tells of the formation of a conspiracy to kill the monk: "Our house on the Moika was chosen as the place where the project was to be carried out. A suite of rooms there was being adapted for my own use and would serve our purpose better than anything else. My associations with Rasputin would afford me an opportunity of persuading him to come and visit...
Engagement Broken. Miss Olivia Johnson, daughter of Owen Johnson, 49, novelist; granddaughter of Robert Underwood Johnson, 74, author, onetime (1920-21) U. S. Ambassador to Italy, onetime (1909-1913) editor of the Century Magazine; from one John Douglas Lowry of Montreal...
KITTY-Warwick Deeping- Knopf ($2). Sex, sentimentality, simplicity-the formula upon which Author Deeping constructed his first best seller Sorrel and Son, his second best seller Doomsday, is, in this opus, not so much complicated by the more difficult factors of good storytelling and sound characterization. In the story of Kitty, a shopgirl, Alex St. George, who marries her, and Clara St. George, his tigerish mother, there is a return to the maudlinity that kept Author Deeping so long upon the lists of the unheralded. Probably even the fact that Alex St. George is a British soldier will not serve...
...Significance. The book may not be dismissed with the remark that it is Author Ostenso's third creative bull's-eye. The Mad Carews is a good book; it stands alone...
...Author. Martha Ostenso was born in Norway, brought to Winnipeg at the age of 3, to Brooklyn at 20, when she began writing. A little known book of verse, the prize-winning Wild Geese and The Dark Dawn are her last five years' productions. She lives and writes now, secluded in an old house on the New Jersey Palisades, makes yearly pilgrimages to Minnesota for family reunions and for material...