Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sense of the word was she a prostitute. I'm sure Julia Peterkin, the author, of the book had no intention of presenting her heroine in the light of a prostitute...
...Author. Cabin-boy on a whaler, sheepherder, newsgatherer, fingerprint expert at a penitentiary, college professor (Smith, Simmons), social worker (with Jane Addams in Chicago), are some of the things Thames (pronounced Tahm'-ez) Ross Williamson has been. Besides novels he has written textbooks on economics, sociology. His novels (Stride of Man, Run Sheep Run, Gypsy Down the Lane) are meant to constitute a U. S. panorama. He was born on an Indian Reservation near Genesee, Iowa, 35 years ago of U. S. parentage...
...preliminary regatta at Marlow and during the U. S. rowing season losers of only one race. Eliminating the Westminster Bank crew in the first heat, Columbia stroked to a one-length victory in the second over the Kingston Rowing Club boat, coached by R. C. Sheriff, young insurance-broker author of Journey's End, current War play. Columbia was eliminated in a windy third heat by the heavier crew of Trinity College, Cambridge...
During his last eight years the late, great Foch was attended by Aide-de-Camp Bugnet, an efficient, obedient soldier, now an author who tries to reveal not Marshal Foch but Monsieur Foch. From the nature of the man as well as the Boswell, one could scarcely expect a record of daily life and opinions comparable in readability with, for example, Jean Jacques Brousson's record of Foch's brother-Academician, Anatole France. It was inevitable that people must learn that Foch's "private life was irreproachable" and that he considered "born believers" the world...
...about steel, cares less. Could Jenny Carlton? Jenny, characterized as "a good egg," is Donald's cunning childhood chum, now his secretary. Could Arthur Willis? Willis, Jefferson senior's subordinate, got Miss Eames her job in the old man's office. Anyone of them could have stolen the formula. Author Blaker gives good account of himself in revealing his secret...