Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sample of which so entertained Morris that he asked to meet the author. The result was a friendship that lasted as long as Morris lived. Last week Shaw offered U. S. readers his pleasant reminiscences of his friend in a 52-page memoir originally published in England as the foreword to a monumental, expensive ($20.75) biography of Morris written by his daughter...
Writing in the foreword to the November Law Review, which went into the mails last night, Learned Hand '93, former member of the Board of Overseers and President of the Alumni, tells the story most explicitly with his first words...
Guilty, by "Anonymous," with a foreword by Donald Richberg, giving reasons why the New Deal is an essential antidote to the poisons of entrenched greed...
What It's All About (Macmillan, $1.25) by William Allen White carries this foreword: ''The Republican National Committee has no idea this book is being written. Governor Landon has no idea this book is contemplated; neither has any friend of his." Although made up in good part from articles Emporia's White has written for the Press, including his piece on Landon for the Saturday Evening Post, What It's All About is the ablest piece of political pamphleteering yet evoked by the campaign...
...storm was of No. 1 velocity and power. Malraux's third translated book. The Royal Way (TIME, Feb. 18, 1935), seemed a regression, was in fact written earlier. Days of Wrath is a short book, hardly longer than a short story: even with an author's foreword and a fearsome introduction by Waldo Frank, it runs to only 184 pages. But readers who were not frightened by Waldo Frank's imitation thunder might have gathered that in Malraux's stormy tale they would feel more than met the eye. Like Malraux's other books, Days...