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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...often the one time that any literary production of the author appears in print. It is the single monument of his pictorial career, and on this attempt he triumphs or fails. Indeed, rarely does a mother who has been disappointed in the sex of her first born experience such difficulties in naming her child as the chairman of groups applying for senior dormitories in devising a witty psuedonym...
...type of man, a man with a trained systematic mind capable of embracing and understanding every phase of faculty and student interest and activity, a certain amount of initiative, scholastic ability, and the pessimism which comes only after a long attempt to please the public. Such men might be born, but in the newspapers field they are more often made. And if the university dailies are to have the best possible editors, it is incumbent on the preparatory schools, to supply them. It is for this reason that the CRIMSON cup is yearly placed at the goal of greater journalistic...
...Author, Dancer Duncan, was born in 1880. Her life shows equally the influence of iced oysters, champagne, and her uneasy but auspicious star. Having composed this detailed and candid history, she planned to follow it with a volume about a trip to Russia?for which "I would hail a New World," was a sort of preface. This second volume she did not accomplish. When she had finished My Life, in the spring of 1927, she prepared to spend the remainder of the summer at her Riviera villa. This lady who had danced a thousand times with a veil waving...
...Significance. Dancer Duncan was born in 1880. As a work of literature the story of her life has merely the merits of explicitness and sincerity. These merits, inherit in the autobiography of a talented, bizarre, intelligent, beautiful and scandalously extraordinary woman, are enough to make such an autobiography a dazzling confusion of testament and tabloid true story...
...Author was born 43 years ago in Munich. His youth was spent learning about philosophy and literature among the wide avenues and beer gardens of Munich and Berlin. In 1905 he organized a cabal for the furtherance of modern literature ? an institution which was glared at by the fishy eyes of Imperialism. His plays ? especially Vasantasena which played 1000 times in eight years? made his reputation in Germany. The Ugly Duchess, published in England in the able and sensitive translation which is now to be released in the U. S., became vastly popular as had Author Feuchtwanger...