Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Near Cresco, Iowa, last week, an automobile sped down a road, a tire blew out, the car turned over, flames burst forth. Out from beneath, unhurt, crawled U. S. Representative Gilbert Nelson Haugen, co-author with U. S. Senator Charles Linza McNary (Oregon) of "the best advertised piece of literature in modern times...
...Plays: Wurzel-Flammery; Belinda; Mr. Pim Passes By; The Truth about Blayds. Books, principally for children: When We Were Very Young; Winnie-the-Pooh ; Now We Are Six (dedicated to Christopher Robin, son of Author Milne, with whom he is very affectionate...
Mencken's Book,* like the first five volumes of its series, lives up to its title. Author Mencken's style is that of a capable blacksmith. His hammer is large and noisy but it usually descends squarely on his anvil. So gritty are the workman's hands, so sweaty is his face that it is easy not to realize that for the most part he is engaged upon no more important a task than flattening pennies...
...Book.? As a small boy, Author Durant lived with his parents and his many brothers in factory towns of Massachusetts & New Jersey. His career as schoolboy differed little from that of any other intelligent schoolboy except that at an early age Author Durant received an invitation from a Roman Catholic Priest: "You must study more, and pray more, and always bear in mind that the church has chosen you to be one of our servants. . . ." For some years Jack (as Author Durant has chosen to call himself in these pages) accepts the invitation to be a priest...
...Significance. It is unfortunate that so evidently sincere a book as this successor to The Story of Philosophy should be given an appearance of artificiality by mannerisms and pretensions which are part of the personality of the author and hence actually evidences of his sincerity. There is, in the first place, no good reason for calling the book (as Mr. Durant does) a "mental autobiography"; its subject is usually something very distinct from Author Durant's intellectual development and its method is far from analytical...