Word: forster
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President, and also Attorney General Sargent, Postmaster General New, Speaker Longworth, Everett Sanders, John Hays Hammond, and Edward T. Clark, Rudolph Forster, Judson C. Welliver (White House men) were guests of 115 newspaper correspondents who "cover" the White House. The correspondents gave a good dinner at the new Hotel Mayflower and Mr. Sargent made a good speech...
...CELESTIAL OMNIBUS-E. M. Forster-Knopf ($2.00). Six strange and beautifully written stories by an author whom literary cognoscenti have for some time appraised as one of the most distinctive of modern English writers. A would-be picnic in the chestnut-woods above the Italian village of Ravello results surprisingly in a 14-year-old English boy's encounter with Pan himself- to his great delight and the utter horror of all his relatives and friends. Another youngster discovers that a certain blind alley in London is the stopping-place for a line of celestial omnibuses, conducted by such...
...acceptance of that term. He is not loud and declamatory. He is a modest man?too modest, no doubt ?and a calm man, and a man with a philosophy that has not worked out so badly, as will be shown. . . . "How much work does the President do? ... Rudolph Forster has been executive clerk at the White House since McKinley was President. . . . Forster says that the burden of work the President has to do now is five times greater than the Presidential work was in McKinley's days in the White House, and three times greater than during the time...
...ROOM WITH A VIEW?E. M. Forster?Knopf ($2.50). Mr. Forster is irritated beyond measure by conventional humanity. But he keeps his temper and laughs good-humoredly from his window at the British Babbitts in Italy. The view from the room was over the Arno, and Florence?of the tourists?is the background for a good part of the book...
...Young Nietzsche". An odd book by Frau Forster-Nietzsche. William Heinemann published this volume to $6.00. We offer...