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Word: ters (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...egotism of most authors heralds them and meets you as they en ter the door. I have yet to discover it in Hugh Walpole. He is the most modest author I know, yet, somehow, the most confident. He believes in his books; but he does not expect you to believe in them. If you do, he is glad. If you do not? well, then, there will always be another. Walpols is tall, broad-shouldered, practically always smiling. He has a broad fore head, He wears glasses. His plat form manner is excellent, and he speaks as he writes ? with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hugh Walpole | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...puzzles presented by her career. The divine Sarah represented the highest achievement in emotional act ing. She was handicapped with an appearance which, while preserving its youth with phenomenal tenacity, was never strictly beautiful. Her art was not one of interpretation. In stead of losing herself in a charac ter - Camille, for example - she used it simply as a mold in which to pour her own glowing vitality. She was born 78 years ago. Her father was French, her mother of mixed Dutch and Jewish origin. Her first great triumph came at the age of 22, as Cordelia in King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Sarah Bernhardt | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...Eshington, Northumberland, a new non-stop dancing record was established by Victor Hindmarch, who kept at it for 25 hours. His partner, Miss Delia Dunn retired af-ter 22 hours and 21 minutes, but the untiring Hindmarch continued with a woman spectator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Mar. 31, 1923 | 3/31/1923 | See Source »

...special series of student affairs takes up the question of the University War Memorial from the student point of view, and advocates a gymnasium in preference to a chapel or a purely ornamental memorial. A special feature of the number is "The Pink Pitten", a Christmas sketch by Ter Whit Willaby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Advocates a Memorial Gymnasium | 12/22/1922 | See Source »

Through killing his sweet-'eart so ter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF REVIEWS | 5/12/1922 | See Source »

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