Word: novel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those days we had on the big and busy staff Lee Stowe, now one of the Herald Tribune's ace men in Europe; Elliot Paul, whose latest novel you favorably review in the same issue; Whit Burnett and Martha Foley who left the Herald to start Story, a fine magazine still flourishing despite trans-plantings from Vienna to Majorca to New York; Will Barber, posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his work in Abyssinia...
...best-selling novel, The Yearling, plump Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings was awarded this year's Pulitzer Prize. Other winners: Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood (his second), for Abe Lincoln in Illinois; Biographer Carl Van Doren, for Benjamin Franklin; Scripps-Howard Correspondent Thomas L Stokes, for exposing WPA in Kentucky politics...
Three years ago, when Publisher Griffin met Viscount Cecil in Paris, he made the novel suggestion that Britain should pay her War debt to the U. S. with the Queen Mary and Bermuda. Lord Cecil was courteously vague, but Winston Churchill rebuffed him, as did President Albert Lebrun, to whom Mr. Griffin suggested that France give up the Normandie. Since then Publisher Griffin has been more insistent than ever that the U. S. collect its debts...
There is no plot in the novel, no story in the usual sense of the word. What happens to Earwicker or what has happened to him-whether, indeed, he is as central a figure as he appears to be-is open to question: readers can construct a dozen theories to explain the form of the book, and find plausible evidence for each. Thus, it sometimes seems that sane speeches are not part of the dream, but voices from the waking world which dimly reach the sleeper. Sometimes it seems that he is hearing confused sounds of some turbulent life going...
...Dateline: Europe he adds a split to the already dual personality of Rosten and Ross, in a glib, neatly joined short novel about a foreign correspondent. Laid in Belgovenia, it covers the adventures of Peter Strake and girls in an abortive Putsch, drips conversational tinsel like a Christmas tree, is neither standard Ross nor Rosten. As one character says: "It's like a cross between Graustark and the Arabian Nights, written by E. Phillips Oppenheim." Authors McCutcheon, Scheherazade, Oppenheim might object, but to most readers Dateline: Europe will seem like a versatile slip which can do Author Rosten...