Word: imprimatur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...svelte" by Mrs. Jefferson Davis. Hers is a truly romantic as well as a wonderfully goofy story-the memoirs of a Southern belle who married a notorious radical. It is husband Upton Sinclair for whom the belle has now told all, and her revelations carry his strangely sentimental imprimatur ("My Southern belle remembers tenderly those dear dead days . . ."). The book, irresistible to students of U.S. life and manners, is the story of Mary's life with Sinclair, that strange, admirable, preposterous figure of a vanished America-a man with every gift except humor and silence...
...including Detroit), where the United Auto Workers Union had cranked up a get-out-the-vote drive. In Wayne County a record 470,000 voters turned out, helped pick Democrats for superintendent of public instruction and three seats on the Supreme Court. So powerful was the governor's imprimatur that it even engineered a victory for 36-year-old Genesee County Surveyor John C. Mackie, whose qualifications to become state highway commissioner had been questioned by the Michigan Society of Professional Engineers...
...Trappist Wiesinger's closely reasoned, footnote-fortified volume is a serious study of apparitions, demons, second sight, telepathy, witches, mediums, magic, radiaesthesia (divining), crystal gazing, hypnosis and diabolical possession. It is built upon a thesis which the author has constructed out of Thomist theology (the book carries the imprimatur) and depth psychology...
Fifty-one years ago, Bernard Shaw found his Boswell in Archibald Henderson, a stage-struck mathematics professor from the University of North Carolina. In 1911 and 1932, Henderson produced "authorized" biographies of Ireland's cranky genius. This book lacks the official imprimatur, because it was completed after Shaw's death, but it is the most massively, not to say crushingly, definitive Shaw biography ever written...
...Never Was, one of the most astonishing stories to come out of World War II. Ordinarily, the Martin story might induce more raised eyebrows than belief. But documented as it is, written by Britain's present Judge Advocate of the Fleet, Ewen Montagu, and coming with the imprimatur of Churchill's wartime Chief of Staff Lord Ismay, it can be enjoyed as one of the most bizarre stories of deception in recent military history...