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Word: avowing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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First part, titled As It Was, appeared under the initials "H. T." in 1927. found so many readers Mrs. Thomas decided to continue her story and avow her authorship. First & last a lovestory, it is outspoken to the breaking-point. Uncaustic Critic John Middleton Murry calls it "a love that was so utterly candid as it was utterly innocent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tragedy of a Preacher* | 3/2/1931 | See Source »

...score of famed U. S. writers, "Who is Bob Davis?" and you will hear: "He published my first story"; "He kept me from starving"; "He gave me my only encouragement." Not authors alone, but many a prizefighter, statesman, explorer, doctor, will avow: "If Bob Davis wants my shirt, it's his." For of Robert Hobart Davis, editorial writer of the New York Sun, onetime associate editor of Munsey's, it is scant exaggeration to say he has "been everywhere, knows everybody." His column in the Sun headed "Bob Davis Recalls:" is an inexhaustible diary of encounters with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Recalling Bob Davis | 6/16/1930 | See Source »

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