Word: conan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Well-how many times have you gone over your shelves on a rainy night, when you were tired and depressed, looking vainly for another story that would pick you out of the mire as quickly as a Conan Doyle, or a Mary Roberts Rinehart or an Anna Katherine Green? What better compliment is there, Mrs. Rohlfs, than that...
John F. Hylan, New York Mayor: " Said I of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, ' If he really believes all he says he does, I'm sorry...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...
...Steinmetz, who declares: " It is obvious that the alleged manifestations of spiritism must be fake, or self-deception, since they are manifestations of energy." Steinmetz holds the Kantian philosophy, that the noumenal world (of spirit) and the phenomenal world (of matter and energy) are absolutely separate realms of experience. Conan Doyle says that " nothing is as dogmatic as science." He has finished his lectures in New York and will tour the United States showing his "spirit photographs." The "new church" may or may not spring up in his wake, but the old churches will view his progress with interest...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: "I announced that I created 'Sherlock Holmes' to be my advance agent. Years ago I reasoned that, through Holmes, people would hear of me and would accordingly lend ready ear to my preaching...