Word: becks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...unnecessary and undeceptive. They add, however, to what is known as feminine mystery, and for this reason women use them whenever possible. One woman, in fact, has no fewer than three aliases which she uses on various occasions, though always for the same reason. She is Mrs. Lily Moresby Beck, who writes fictional biography as E. Barrington; oriental philosophy as L. Adams Beck; and magazine articles as L . Moresby. Herewith reviews of two of her books and of some by other women...
...STORY OF ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY- L. Adams Beck-Cosmopolitan...
...spite of indignant denials, India has been firmly established in the mind of the general reader as a purgatory of child marriages, a hell of sadistic animal torture. Mrs. Beck touches lightly upon these abuses, announces firmly that India has made the greatest spiritual contribution of all time. While the West has been making rapid jerks of progress-materialistic, intellectual, scientific-the East has long since attained a spiritual consummation which -the West cannot forever ignore. Western science has recently discovered evolution in the development of a man's body-Eastern philosophy has always been concerned with evolution...
...propriety, attempted to uplift and order civilization. As magistrate, he justified Plato's ideal of government by philosophers - until political jealousy put him out of office. Bitterly disappointed, he died in sorrow, little guessing that it would be said of him: "Confucius is China." But such is Author Beck's opinion. Best known for her biographies (by "E. Barrington"), she has long been a student of the Orient. Her present volume is avowedly "popular," readable; but the interpretation is sound, the information valuable...
...last week French Justice was avenged, when smart Mr. & Mrs. Beck applied for a Paris divorce. They were told that their mode of life did not constitute a "fixed residence," and that at least one of them would have to reside ashore for at least six months before they could apply for a French divorce...