Word: memoir
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...purposes of historical study are often more faithfully served by a vivid incident than by pages of abstractions: this little memoir illumines America's maritime era. The poverty-stricken mother of Elijah Cobb, a sailor's widow, mothering six, sent him out into the world. At 14 he sailed for Surinam as cook and cabin-boy; he was in command of a brig at 23. The captain of those days was navigator, merchant, banker and diplomatist as occasion required; witness his first voyage to Europe as shipmaster. The year was 1793, when neutrals had few rights. His brig...
Siegfried Wagner, son of the great composer, published in Stuttgart a volume of Erinnerungen (Recollections). It is a rambling memoir, as the name implies, written by a genial, chatty man from the standpoint of one who knew the famous Richard as kind papa, and the stern Cosima as affectionate mamma...
That Lord Morley, who recently died (TIME, Oct. 1), biographer of Rousseau, Voltaire, Gladstone, Burke, Cobden and others, should have forbidden the use of his papers to persons who " may desire to write a memoir of my life" seems the strangest of fiction. Yet a passage in his will makes it an unfortunate but transparent fact: " I give to my nephew, Guy Estell Morley, all my correspondence, diaries and written fragments, to be dealt with as he may think fit, at his own discretion. And, as it is possible that some person may desire to write a memoir...
Thomas Nelson Page was Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to the Court of Savoy. Of Thomas Nelson Page : a Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman by Rosewell Page, Mr. Mencken writes: " Let the Scribners take the gold-mounted custard pie for printing the worst biography every heard...
...evidence of the high esteem in which he was held. In his life he was the source of constant inspiration to his associates; by dedicating the Album to him the class will keep before it his inspiring example, and incorporate in the record of its undergraduate years a memoir of one of whom it may be said...