Word: machen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Playwright Patrick Hamilton denies that he was influenced by the history of Leopold and Loeb, acknowledges a debt to Thomas De Quincey's essay "Murder as a Fine Art." The source is immaterial -this crescendo of fear depends on neither history nor scholarship. Mr. Hamilton, like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, is an artist who makes diabolical fiction seem as real as sticks and stones...
...school devoted to orthodoxy. Prof. Oswald Thompson Allis, editor of the Princeton Theological Review, advocated a Philadelphia suburban site for the new seminary, conveniently near the University of Pennsylvania. Later these three men agreed to leave Princeton, to teach the following subjects at the new school: Dr. Machen-New Testament; Dr. Wilson- Old Testament criticism; Semitic philology. Committees were formed Westminster Theologies tentatively adopted, pledges of 22,000 made. It was hinted that the seminary would open in the fall. Acting Secretary is Roland K. Armes, 1237 Commercial Trust Building, Philadelphia. Contributions gratefully received...
...Hudson. Bear in mind that these are popular and "sell" and also that they are "classics"--beyond a human doubt. De Morgan is your modern Dickens and in place of Charles Lamb there is Max Beerbohm and a worthy modern equivalent he is. Follow him with James Stephens, possibly Machen, and Aldous Huxley. Hudson leads us to Cunninghame, Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell...
...British Empire. He is also librarian of the British War Office. His first book Warriors in Undress was a snicker at the absurdities of war. Author Hudleston is not without literary connections; Sylvia Townsend Warner (author of Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) is his niece; Arthur Machen is his brother...
...arguments, which a world busied with crime, catastrophes and aviators has of late ignored. Forthwith President F. E. Robinson of the association promoting Bryan Memorial University at Dayton (Scopes trial), Tenn., sent a 48-word telegram to his Promotional Director Malcolm Lockhart in Manhattan, ordering him to offer Dr. Machen the presidency of the proposed Bryan Memorial University. Promoter Lockhart made the offer; told the newspapers. Dr. Machen harassed, unhappy, kept silent...