Word: foreword
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crown Princess Cecilia, wife of the ex-Crown Prince, was reported about to publish a book entitled Summer at the Sea Shore. It has nothing to do with royalty or politics. The foreword reads...
...little pleasure to those who, burdened by the material misery of every day life in Germany, seek to save themselves by a glimpse into the broad "out there," which God's nature always' opens to the seeking mind. The Vossische Zeitung, Berlin Socialist journal, commenting upon this foreword, said that the public must appreciate the fact that the book was written by the Crown Princess before the War, and that she has not, like "most writers from the former higher regions, learned to write after the War -and then they were forced to have some one guide their...
This most recent volume of Sherwood Anderson is a collection of nine stories, long and short, with a Foreword and a short eulogy of Theodore Dreiser. It is not enough to catalogue those tales with the complaisant adjective "realistic" and marvel at the sordidness that is occasionally revealed or the peculiar intimacy of the author with human mental processes and physical passions. Several of them may truthfully be accused of realism; but on the whole they are far from that; when the author sees the worst, which is not seldom, he paints it blacker than actuality could conceivably be; when...
...review, according to its editors "like every other monthly review the world have ever seen," it will be a review, as was the Repetition Generale in the Smart Set, seen through and colored by the editor's glasses. Indeed, a warning to this effect is given in the foreword: "the nobility and gentry are cautioned that they are here in the presence of no band of passionate altruists . . . The editors are committed to nothing save this--to keep to common sense as fast as they can, to belabor sham as agreeably as possible...
Despite the fact that President Harding wrote a brief foreword to the articles saying that he had given his wholehearted support to the Prohibition Unit and thought the public would be "greatly interested" in the observations of Mr. Haynes, the articles have not gone without criticism. The Courier-Journal (Louisville) called attention to the fact that "Izzy" Einstein (Manhattan prohibition agent of some fame and many disguises) had been refused permission by the Treasury Department (overlord of the Prohibition Unit) to publish his exploits, and questioned the fairness of Haynes' being permitted to go ahead with a similar project...