Word: confidante
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inevitably the great translator's biography is dry as dust. Born in French Flanders of bourgeois parents. Educated in the ordinary primary and secondary schools open to every child in France. Then four university years at Lille and Paris, majoring in English and graduating with a B. A. English...
Where the duties of the tutors are to end and those of the proctors or disciplinary officers begin in the future new housing units will have to be decided before the House plan goes into effect. For, as Mr. Peterkin points out in his interview, the responsibility of the tutor...
The Significance. Though differing in detail from The Book of Daniel Drew and Warshow's Jay Gould, Jubilee Jim completes the fascinating picture of those two crooked wizards in relation to their lesser but indispensable associate. Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity...
Out of the California sky, all the way from the Atlantic seaboard by air, dropped Col. William J. ("Wild Bill") Donovan, Assistant Attorney-General in the Coolidge Cabinet and "the next Attorney-General" in the press. He said he was there to work on some cinema cases. But everyone knew...
THE HEART OF BURROUGHS'S JOURNALS - Edited by Clara Barrus - Houghton Mifflin ($3.00). The daughter of Burroughs's physician and confidant chooses widely and wisely from the autobiographical notes of the great naturalist, friend of Whitman.