Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editors of "Art Studies" have secured also the cooperation of a notable body of 26 international scholars who will act in an advisory capacity. The list includes many of the leading authorities of the world, among whom are Dr. Max Friedlander, a German authority on prints and North European painting, Professor Adolp Goldschmidt, an eminent German Mediaevalist who is to give a series of lectures at Harvard next fall, M. R. James, a well-known English mediaevalist, Dr. A. Warburg, of the University of Hamburg, Paul Pelliot, a French Orientalist. Roger Fry, British author and authority on modern painting, Bernnard...
...than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding grapes, quiet grey eyes, legs "supple as the bending barley," and all the gems and moving animals and rare wonders of the world-a man that should play a tall harp is telling a deep epic. The Author's scholarship, of which he needed and exercised much in this book, comes from the old universities at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig. His way with words and occupation with matters spiritual are natural to a North-Irelander, born though he was in Manhattan. His last book, a novel for Irishmen...
...history. But who knows what Major General Crowder did in his usual working hours between 7:30 a. m. and midnight? Among other things, he was onetime Judge Advocate General (legal head) of the U. S. Army and its ablest lawyer in many a year. He was the chief author of the selective draft law? an achievement as difficult as it was unpopular. In Cuba, he ably unraveled another thankless knot. As one of the makers of its organic law, as personal representative of President Harding, as U. S. Ambassador since 1923, no man has done more to take...
THIS ECSTASY-Elizabeth Stern- J. H. Sears ($2.50). The title of this tale, the purple cover which surrounds its 384 pages, are good hints. In a style which appears to be the offspring of a union between A. S. M. Hutchinson and the King James Version of the Bible, Author Stern, in the first person, unfolds the humdrum history of a young writer, later turned advertising man, later turned merchant. His unimportant love affairs, his inconsequential pokings at life with a stick, fail to acquire emotional value or intensity by virtue of the magenta draperies which muffle the recital...
...writer, nowadays, who disparages anything typical of America or Americans is immediately branded an imitator of H. L. Mencken," declared Herbert Asbury in an interview with the CRIMSON. Asbury, who is on the staff of the New York Herald-Tribune, is known as the author of "Hatrack," a short story which caused the suppression of the American Mercury last spring, and of "Up from Methodism...