Word: conrad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...owners want more. Last fortnight, Hotelman Conrad Hilton, combing Europe for possible links to add to his U.S. chain, was cold-shouldered when he asked if the Ritz could be bought. Said able Managing Director Claude Auzello: "Being a Ritz stockholder is a sort of hobby . . . The Ritz is an old tradition. It is not for sale...
...Nobel Prize committee passed over Mark Twain, Ibsen, Hardy, Gorky, Chekhov, Conrad, Henry James, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Arnold Bennett, Willa Gather, Swinburne, George Meredith, Zola, Proust, Joyce, H. G. Wells, D. H. Lawrence, Rainer Maria Rilke. Its greatest oversight: although it was established in 1901, and Tolstoy did not die until 1910, it never gave an award to the greatest novelist of them...
...something like the weight he needs to wrestle with Rank for the British box office. He promptly made plans to star Jennifer Jones in a Technicolor version of Tess of the D'Urbervilles, and Gregory Peck in a Technicolored Tale of Two Cities. Also on the schedule: Joseph Conrad's An Outcast of the Islands, Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point, Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain, Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days, and a new unpublished novel, The Third Man, by Graham Greene...
...Conrad Aiken '12, E. E. Cummings '15, Jose Garcia Villa, and Kenneth Patchen were some of the drawing cards that launched the quarterly on the way to becoming something more than an undergraduate effort...
Literary Legends. The friends of James who published their reminiscences of him after his death-especially Ford Madox Hueffer-romanticized, to say the least. Nowell-Smith has taken incidents and opinions and anecdotes from a hundred-odd sources-H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Mrs. Joseph Conrad, J. M. Barrie, Thomas Hardy, Virginia Woolf, Arnold Bennett -and assembled them in the form of a dossier. The result is as absorbing as a good mystery story...