Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Alexander Dumas, painter, direct descendant of Alexandre Dumas, famed Frenchman, author of Camille and many another romantic novel; in Mitchell...
Engaged. Joseph Wesley Harper, great grandson of Joseph Harper, founder of Harper & Brothers, publishers; to Miss Constance Garland, illustrator of her father's (Author Hamlin Garland's) books (which are published by Macmillan...
...author of Exodus describes the manna as "like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey...
...Author. It was Booth Tarkington who lately pointed out that real "sophistication" lies in the way you know things, not in the things you know. Katherine Brush qualifies either way you like. Being the daughter of Headmaster Charles S. Ingham of Dummer Academy (South Byfield, Mass.), only 26 and surpassing fair, she comes naturally by her understanding of nice young modern emotions. How she assimilated the more feverish, spotty metropolitan spectacle-down to the contents of a drug-store cowboy's frayed wallet, stage door argot and the private thoughts of night club Neros-is another story. She worked...
...DRUMS OP PANIC-Martin Feinstein-Macy-Masius ($2). The aim of this nebulous narrative is to show the effect of the War not only upon a warrior but upon the family to which he returns. Author Feinstein is a poet. In fact he won the Nation's poetry prize in 1922. Hence his disregard for the pedestrian logic of coherent storytelling. In a fine frenzy of disillusion he causes the hero, named Edsel, to mouth his horror of the corpse-strewn Argonne, what time, back on the family farm, he cuckolds his hayseed brother Hiram. For some reason Hiram...