Word: essayist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Diplomatist. "Given to duty and very clever in carrying it out," was the way Fisherman-Essayist Henry van Dyke described Queen Wilhelmina in the days when he was U. S. Minister to her court...
...Italy's foreign policy," says Harold Nicolson, British M. P., essayist, novelist, onetime diplomat, "is to acquire by negotiation an importance greater than can be supplied by her own physical strength. It is thus the antithesis of the German system, since instead of basing diplomacy on power she bases power on diplomacy. It is the antithesis of the French system, since instead of striving to secure permanent allies against a permanent enemy, she regards her allies and her enemies as interchangeable. It is the antithesis of the British system, since it is not durable credit that she seeks...
Died. Henry Havelock Ellis, 80, bronzed, white-bearded essayist, editor (The Mermaid Series of Old Dramatists), sexologist, whose lifework (housebreaking sex) is contained in his monumental four-volume Studies in the Psychology of Sex; in Hintlesham, England...
Italianate Englishman Max ("The Inimitable Max") Beerbohm, 61, lighter-than-air essayist who wrote his last book, Around Theatres, in 1930, was among those elevated to a knighthood on King George's birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
Thomas Mann. world-famous novelist and essayist, will give an informal lecture tonight in the Lowell House Tower room at a meeting of the German Club at 9 o'clock. The meeting will be open only to members of the club...