Word: authorship
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...acclaimed by some discerning critics as the greatest painter of all time, has been discovered in Paris. It represents a young boy, half-length, full-face, auburn curls, scalloped collar, yellowish silver-gray jacket, brownish-red cloak. Many connoisseurs had seen the picture but had not suspected its authorship until a dealer, noting the resemblance to Vermeer's charming Young Girl in the Mauritshuis, The Hague, found various other clues, and was corroborated by the leading Vermeer critic...
...Emile Coue: " A new formula has taken popular fancy in Paris. It runs: 'Oh, hell, I am well' ('Tiens, je suis bien.') I sent a telegram from Nancy denying authorship...
...Authorship has often been spoken of as a pleasant pastime, and as such, one might be tempted to say of it, that the first hundred books are the hardest. This statement, although rather an exaggeration concerning the rank and file of men of letters, assumes its proper proportions when applied to some authors of the past, and even to a few moderns...
Upon the time honored rock bottom of caste distinctions and the pride of the landed aristocracy Mr. Galsworthy has reared a solid superstructure of melodrama in the "Eldest Son", well constructed, as might be expected from the authorship, and free to a large degree from the usual Galsworthy flair...
...rule in the Harvard literary realm. Last year was marked by a low-point in the graph: Heywood Broun's pessimism about our post-war writing, supported by half-a-dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since the War would be a respectable garner in itself...