Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the world's largest ship, S. S. Majestic, nosed down Southampton Water last trip, she carried precious cargo. In the first cabin were Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada', Novelist Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Violin Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Headmaster of Eton College (see p. 38). In the hold were 311 boxes of gold -$15,000,000 worth-part of Britain's $95,550,000 War debt payment...
Lion Feuchtwanger, German novelist (Jew Suss, Success), got publicity by displaying the U. S. slang he had picked up en route to the U. S. from novelist Joseph Hergesheimer. Said he: "The trip was okay. It was swell and it was not lousy...
Dear Jane (by Eleanor Holmes Hinkley; Civic Repertory Theatre, producer). ''Acting," wrote Novelist Jane Austen, "seldom satisfied me." It is inconceivable that either the acting or the playwriting of Dear Jane, a dramatic biography of clever Novelist Austen, would have satisfied her. Seldom if ever has the capable Civic Repertory company dulled its fine tools on material so obdurate...
Professor Huxley, the grandson of the famous scientist and free-thinker T. H. Huxley, and brother of the novelist Aldous Huxley, is known as the author of numerous books on biological subjects. Co-author with J. B. S. Haldane of "Animal Biology," used in Biology A and Zoology 1 courses at Harvard, and with H. G. Wells of "The Science of Life," he also acted as biological editor for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. He has continued his grandfather's theory of evolution in two recent works, "The Stream of Life" and "Religion Without Revelation...
...Frederick Leroy Hutson its onetime registrar. Adam Leroy Jones is director of admissions at Columbia; George Dobbin Brown was librarian at General Theological Seminary. Princeton teachers but not "preceptor guys" were Scientists Sir James Hopwood Jeans and Owen Willans Richardson. Variously famed are Connecticut's Senator Hiram Bingham (Yaleman), Novelist Maxwell Struthers Burt, Songman Sigmund Spaeth and his crew-coaching, English-teaching half-brother John Duncan, Donald Clive Stuart, adviser of the Triangle Club, Charles William Kennedy, retired chairman of the Committee on Athletics...