Word: meier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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DOSTOEVSKY?THE MAN AND His WORK ?J. Meier-Graefe?Harcourt Brace...
...Meier-Graefe's book, to be exact, is not a biography in the classic sense of the word. To put the matter generally, it is the attempt of an astute and typically German mind to understand and to some extent lay bare a notice and typically Russian mind. And the attempt is singularly successful. From the very nature of the works with which he has to deal, a mere investigation and discussion of what may be called the facts of the novels--their construction, their action, even their dramatic quality--however painstaking and exact it might be, would...
...only after one has finished the book and has gained something of a comprehension of Dostoevsky's mind and of his almost artless art, that one can wholly understand Mr. Meier-Graefe's opening lines, and why he consistently calls the great novelist a poet
...Neptune, N. J., the Rev. Irving Meier, pastor of the Full Gospel Church, was arrested last week on a charge of disorderly conduct because he persisted in conducting "screeching, howling and hilarity" in his tent-tabernacle after 10 p. m. Upon his promising to cease his pentecostal endeavors at a seemly hour he was discharged...
...Barry, Chairman, Miss Margaret Murphy; H. F. Sayward, Miss Mildred Fenton; F. W. Currier, Miss Doris Goodwin; Dominick Manoli, Miss Willa Semple; P. N. Roe, Miss Dorothy Meier; E. M. Roe, Miss Laura Templeton; H. Wilkinsen, Miss Isabella Hart! H. H. Watchpocket, Miss Mildred Dolbair; M. W. Stevens, Miss Caroline Shaw...