Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Putnam. Publisher George Palmer Putnam of Manhattan, with his small son David Binney Putnam; Art Young, archer; Carl Dunrud, cowboy; Dan Streeter, author; Capt. Bob Bartlett, Explorer Peary's onetime skipper; Knud Rasmussen, explorer; and naturalists from the American Museum of Natural History, have been cruising Davis Strait and Baffin Bay, off Greenland, in constant radio communication with the New York Times. Many a description of Arctic weather effects has been received, couched in Publisher Putnam's best editorial verbiage. Walrus, seals, narwhal and varied seafowl have fallen to the voyagers' trusty guns, a high moment coming...
Married. Helen Manning Brown, great-great-granddaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; to Herbert Dudley Hale of Boston, grandson of the late Edward Everett Hale, author of The Man Without a Country, at St. James...
...real person whom a fairly eminent scientist could scarcely help meeting. (English reviewers have been choking fretfully over this feature.) The Mottoes. There are two mottoes for this book. One is quoted from Heraclitus: "πavra pεi -All things change (flow)." The other is inadvertently inserted by Author William Clissold-H. G. Wells: "This book, at any rate, is not going to be a home of rest for the tired reader...
...Eros for a Limey roustabout and his pretty moll; or of a pious Chinee merchant who sacrificed his family tablets, and something besides, for his friend the police sergeant. There are other tales, more drab and theatrical, of factory creatures in Stewpony and Clutterfield; and some people think that Author Burke overdoes the seamy side of things. Yet even in a seam he turns up the bright thread. Moreover, he sometimes writes close to subtle, sensitive perfection...
...child left home; another married a rotter; another became a felon. The youngest, whom Stephen really, finally loved, worked himself to death trying to please. Such a tale, such a well defined autocrat as Stephen Heath, might serve the ends of young things with harsh, exacting papas, but Author Forrest spoils most of his effects by belaboring the obvious, philosophizing stodgily...