Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Babbitt is any person who by his muddled features, raucous costume, attitude or gesture defines himself as inescapably belonging to that type of Native American popularized in the novel of Sinclair Lewis...
...middle of July brings vicissitudes to the pitchers, many an oldtime ace being relegated to the furnace, many an upstart daily acquiring novel glamor. In the American League Veteran Pennock of the Yankees is probably the outstanding hurler with 13 victories under his belt. In the National, Rhem of St. Louis has eleven wins to his credit. It is, of course, unfair to gauge pitchers on a Won-Lost basis, for consistently winning pitchers are not necessarily the best pitchers, since they may fortunately be hurling for a heavy-hitting team whereas an excellent pitcher may lack support from...
...that is not an exaggeratedly lyrical paraphrase of a gypsy chief's address to his people, then this may be a vividly naturalistic novel of gypsy life in the eastern U. S. It follows the devious fortunes of a band of Romanies from the break-up of their winter camp in New Hampshire to their arrival at a Vermont council ground in the autumn. In particular, it follows the wooing of pantherlike young Panna, the chief's daughter, by Milanko, the tumbler, and Yurka, the half-giorgio* fiddler; and reflects the changing of gypsy ways from mooching along...
Author Williamson, only 32, has already been hobo, sailor, sheepherder, circus hand, newspaper reporter, wrestling instructor, prison official (finger prints), social worker, Harvard M. A., professor, translator, research ethnologist and author of a first novel (Run Sheep Run) that was universally hailed as "impressive, fascinating, vigorous, sinister, virile, etc., etc." He was born of mixed Welsh†, French, Irish and Norwegian stock on an Indian reservation. The collection of novels he intends to write he calls "The American Panorama...
Newsgatherers last week discovered that a recent U. S. arrival, one Vivian Burnett, son of Authoress Frances Hodgson Burnett, who with fond motherliness had idealized him in her novel, was the original model for the lacy-collared, golden-curled Lord Fauntleroy, who rankled little boys of another generation. His metamorphosis gave the reporters opportunity to contrast his bald pate to the departed curls; his tall height to the coquettish figure of the book. Vivian himself whimpered, "No matter where I go or what I do, there is always the reference to the fact that I was the germ...