Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Memorial Room of Widener Library is exhibiting a collection of proofs, corrected in the author's handwriting, and designed to show the different methods used by famous writers in their proof reading. The Treasure Room is exhibiting a collection of early Latin originals and facsimiles...
Henceforth all communications intended for publication in the Crimson must be signed but if the writer wishes, his name will be omitted, with the understanding that anyone who so desires may, on application, be informed of the author's identity. The Crimson assumes no responsibility for any letter and reserves the right to exclude those whose publication would be palpably inappropriate...
...scale never before attempted by any American scholar, the Beards have tried to gather and to express the formative influences, the circumstances and the results of all that has gone to make up American civilization for three hundred years. There is no preface that explains that the author is very sorry that the limits of his study force him to omit all but the diplomatic history of the period; nor is there any method used in the writing of the book other than that of judicious selection. The economic flavor of Professor Beard's former works, that economic bias which...
...Serle, a young man, but already a member of Parliament, and to a uselessly rich Jew. Then we jump to London during the war. Venetia has just come home from school, and Serle, always close to her, is her devoted friend. At a houseparty she meets Saville, a young author, and dislikes him intensely. Six years later, Ysabel, American musical comedy star, enters the book and promptly falls in love with Saville. "Young Raphael," a Jew, in turn falls in love with her, and steals one of his father's diamonds as a present. She refuses it, and the affair...
...Tris March in the "Green Hat" or Shelmerdine in "The London Venture"; in Saville there is Pelham Marlay, and in the likeable Peter Serle a touch of Lord George Tarlyon. Venetia Vardon is the typical lovely creature of Michael Arlen, impossible yet plausible, stunning and elusive. At least the author has realized the truth of O. Henry's maxim that Bohemia is merely a land we do not live in, and has created appropriate characters, which are a relief after picayune sensationists such as James Joyce, Sherwood Anderson, and others, who think themselves realists for showing us the disagreeable things...