Word: novel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...November 12, the Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York, will become Archbishop of Canterbury. Like the Most Reverend Randall Thomas Davidson, whom he succeeds, Dr. Lang is a Scotchman; also he is 64, the author of a novel and a play, the seventh son of a seventh son, a brilliant though sometimes over-impassioned orator, and suspected of being the leader of that portion of the Church of England which most nearly approaches the Church of Rome. It was this last qualification in the present Archbishop of York which caused members of the League of Loyal Churchmen...
...Dictator is now a ripe 45 and world-great. But he was only a raw 26 and a nobody, when, with galloping quill, he dashed his novel upon foolscap, in weekly installments, for a Socialist newspaper...
Amusing is the tale of how Scribe Mussolini, unused to doing such long pieces, wearied of his novel and threatened to kill off Claudia with intent to bring the Romanzo to a close. "For Heaven's sake, don't!" Editor Battisti would cry. "The subscriptions are being renewed splendidly...
Premet. More than 1,000,000 women are said to have worn the boyish black gown, with white collars and cuffs, which went by the name of La Garconne. It was the House of Premet which invented La Garconne to ride the wave of the novel's popularity. Madame Charlotte, the present head of the house, is herself one of the most beautiful women in Paris, with mauve hair which has an interesting history...
...Author. MacKinlay Kantor, Iowa born and bred, contributed much padding and less literature to his mother's local magazine, got considerable publicity from his ballad on Floyd Collins in the Chicago Tribune column, and worked, like the hero of his first novel, for County Cook. He wrote Diversey in three months, and until the royalties come in, he is supporting his wife and child on detective stories...