Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Unquestionably France's most brilliant poet-dramatist, author of Cyrano de Bergerac, L'Aiglon, Chantecler...
Married. Edward E. Paramore Jr., onetime (1923) National Affairs Editor of TIME, now playwright (Set a Thief), author too of Yukon Jake, famed poem printed and reprinted by request by Vanity Fair; to Miss Edith Wellman; in Manhattan...
...Glenn Frank (University of Wisconsin president), Daniel Willard (Baltimore & Ohio R. R. president), James Branch Cabell (author of Jurgen, The Cream of the Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
...Author, aged 65, lives in distinguished privacy on the Riviera. She published her first book in the last year of the 19th Century. Descended from Manhattan patricians (Rhinelanders, Schermer-horns), she has always been seriously a gentlewoman. Art and animals are her least intellectual diversions. Henry James was her most important friend...
...wife and goes to another girl in whom he has seen the possibility of a deeper relationship, tells her that he will enlist and come back to her after the War. Thus he fulfills the essential vigor of his character, ceases to be a spectator, joins the big show. Author McCready has the ability to tell a swift story swiftly, to make events and people assume spasmodic vitality. His writing is not polished but it is workmanlike, easy to read...