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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cites the case of Hypatia, wife of Theon; he cites the case of Judge Mary Barteleme of Chicago. Does he prove anything? The answer is obvious. He proves as much as Al Jolson when he croons the need of the old plantation, mammy, and a ticket to Mobile. American women don't need any sentimentalizing. From the late years of the last century they have had much too much of that. And few of the intelligent ones, the Bypatias of Spoon River and Lynn and Beacon Bill, would care for the sugared accents of the dying bowman. Arthur is passing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MORT D'ARTHUR | 6/4/1927 | See Source »

...Icarus and Crookshank's Mongol in Our Midst, many of the little red books have enjoyed prestige that was largely borrowed. Bertrand Russell wrote a second book (What I Believe), as did Dr. Crookshank (Aesculapius) that stood on independent merits. The feminist controversy between Mrs. Russell and Captain Ludovici (Hypatia v. Lysistrata) was very readable, though biased on both sides. Gerald Heard's Narcissus?An Anatomy of Clothes qualified in its own right. But for the most part it seems as if the Duttons have gone unwisely far afield for writers and subjects, thinning out a superb vintage with hasty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION, FICTION: Gladstone v. Disraeli | 3/22/1926 | See Source »

...Additions to E. P. Dutton & Co.'s famed "Today and Tomorrow" series, at $1.00 the copy: Lysistrata by Anthony M. Ludovici, Hypatia by the Hon. Mrs. Bertrand (Dora) Russell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex War | 8/24/1925 | See Source »

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