Word: written
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There correspondents prodded him with questions about his early life until he cackled: "I have been a little bit a rogue elephant-as I have written, something of a rascal elephant...
Goodspeed's Bible. This, a translation of the New Testament from the Greek, was written by Dr. Edgar Johnson Goodspeed, professor of Patristic Greek, secretary to the president, and chairman of the New Testament Department, at the University of Chicago. When it was published, in 1923, and was printed serially in the Chicago Evening Post & other newssheets, there was a great hue and cry. Critics squeaked about the beauty of the King James Version and the inferiority of the Goodspeed Version. In point of fact, Goodspeed's translation into modern American was in some respects not as well...
...Significance. The Literary Guild had the good sense to pick Black Majesty for its subscribers to read in March. The book is not written with genius either of style or of insight but it is written with intelligence and a proper sensitiveness to words. It can be asserted, with some justice, that, possessing these qualifications, no one could help writing a good book about King Christophe. Author John Vandercook, in a day when too many authors with abilities insufficient for their task attempt to decorate matters which are trite or trivial, deserves applause for choosing a superlative subject for human...
...tired of getting along, particularly when he finds out that his wife had duped him into marriage after having an illegitimate child by another man. Honest, basically upright Simon obtains a divorce, a wholesome job, a new and true wife. Author Train tells it swiftly, stiffly. He has also written eleven novels, five volumes of short stories, six matchless yarns about Mr. Tutt (funny lawyer), three law books...
News comes to us from a former CRIMSON president now studying at the University of London, that neither of the two books that head the list of English best-sellers is written by an Englishman. One of course, is Thornton Wilder's "Bridge of San Luis Rey." The Lawrenceville teacher seems to have won quite a following abroad with the restrained writing of his philosophical novel. "The Bridge", however, is not the first in the eyes of Englishmen. That honor goes to "The Ugly Duchess", Feuchtwanger's historical romance which is among the first five on this side...