Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...herself is one of the leading members of the younger summer set of Long Island, and has an established position in both New York and Washington society. Major Granville Fortescue, her father, has a distinguished military record, was at one time aide at the White House, and is an author of repute. Miss Fortescue's grandfather is Charles J. Bell, president of the American Security and Trust Co. of Washington, D. C. The late Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, was her great-uncle. Among other of Miss Fortescue's distinguished relations, are the late President Theodore...
...bitter things he was saying until he was nearly done. None thought to take his words down verbatim, yet as he finished they realized that he had pronounced a judgment as scornful as it was scathing upon a white man who is popularly supposed to be loved by Negroes- Author Carl Van Vechten of Nigger Heaven, long a cat-fancier but lately a collector as well of Negro art, a patron of Negro poets, a frequenter of Harlem cabarets and apartments...
...company makes his cartoon figure not only comic but human, and helps carry through a farce which is only fairly good into a very pleasant evening. When the spinster motif is over-worked or the thin ice cracks it is plainly not the actor's but the author's fault. The audience was sprinkled with portions of the British Navy, who remarked truly and in accents worthy of Roland Young that it was a jolly good show; and if it is not so good as "The Ghost Train" it may run even longer. The unmarried ladies, as well...
...play itself, however, was hardly a match for the importance of the occasion, when one considers what might reasonably be expected from the author of "Where the Blue Begins," "Thunder on the Left," or even "The Romany Stain." "Pleased to Meet You" is the name of the play, an dit came out first as a short novel in Harper's during the past summer. The novelette was subtly satirical and financially fantistic. People said of it, as they say of anything of Morley's which they do not clearly understand. "What delightful fantasy?" Furthermore when the Morley sense of humor...
...Robert is also a Trustee of the National Gallery of British Art, and one of the founders as well as the Chairman of the National Art Collections Fund. He is the author of several books and has formed a large library of photographs of paintings and drawings which is open for the use of all students and persons interested...