Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760-1836) author of La Marseillaise employed similar tactics when arraigned before a French jury on a capital charge. "Frenchmen!" he cried, "Hear my defense: I am guilty, but I am the author of La Marseillaise...
...Author of THE MONGOL IN OUR MIDST-Dutton...
...breaks out again in the next six years. She is perfectly aware that in the girl flows blood, not only from John and Priscilla Alden, but from "the grand old Spanish family, Abarbanel, who counted among their number poets, musicians and a minister of state to Ferdinand and Isabella." Author Stephen Crane (The Red Badge of Courage) was "a not distant relative." A grand-uncle edited the American Register (Paris) and knew Empress Eugénie. Genius, the Cranes must recognize, will...
...great funeral pyre. From a platform before it the Bishop celebrated mass. Then a match crackled, the pyre towered into flame. For an hour, untiring, zealous, the Bishop cast upon it books adjudged heretical. The first victim was a treatise by erudite philosopher Unamuno, the last a novel by author-poet Blasco Ibañez. Erring news gatherers chronicled this event as an "auto-da-fé"-an extinct form of inquisitional ceremony† of which the last orthodox examples occurred in the reign of Charles...
...Alexanian '27 has joined the ranks of undergraduate authors with his book. "When I Was a Boy in Armenia." The book is dedicated to Dean R. E. Bacon '16, and inscribed to Harvard University, to which the author declares his great indebtedness for his present progress from the backward education of Armenia to the higher training afforded here...