Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shoemaker, stick to your last!" was the sound advice dealt out to his fellow craftsmen by hardworking, he-man Author Ernest Hemingway in the afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead...
Lusty Poet Robert Burns stood posthumously revealed as a pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...
...order to achieve this plan, Author Balchin believes, that Cesare schemed and wheedled troops from the French and raised his private horde of Swiss and Italian bandits. While his satiated father sat back weakly on his throne (some historians think, on the contrary, that Borgia senior was quite handy at murder), son Cesare stormed and conquered numerous fortresses in Italy. Men who got in his way were ruthlessly disposed of by his Spanish henchman, Don Michelotto, or quietly turned over to his bland and terrifying secretary, Agapito, who, in Author Balchin's version, sounds comically like P. G. Wodehouse...
...major portion of Author Steen's book concerns Hero Johnny Flood's tussles with witch doctors and rebellious Negroes on the Gold Coast-a he-man's world which supplies the crunchier passages of Twilight's prevailing nougat. It also provides Author Steen with one of her most stunning sentences: "On the poop of the Rembwe, Macpherson's beard burnt like an oriflamme...
...Author Steen is more in her element when Johnny comes marching home to break his heart in late-Victorian England -a world of hansom cabs and monocled cads, where every girl is in danger of losing something called her "reputation" and every man's favorite cuss word is a sibilant "Pish!" Still Author Steen does not fuss too much about period accuracy: her male characters speak fluent, up-to-date