Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike on the road which had kept them from shipping grain, coal and steel. They were also mad enough four months later to do something about it. Nineteen shippers made up a $10,000 pool, used it to hire a smart lawyer. He went into Federal Court with a novel plea: the T. P. & W. (though highly solvent), was "physically bankrupt," so a receiver should be appointed to run the trains...
...once, don't blame Hollywood censorship. Cain's super-sexed passages were the weakest parts of his story, and their removal is not responsible for the animated skeleton that MGM, has produced. Rather it is the inexplicable changes that have been made in the structure of the novel, changes that confuse and obscure the basic thread of love, changes that transform a dynamic series of events into an almost comically catastrophic succession of messes...
...Milwaukee-born Bravig Imbs had lived a life as full of joie de vivre as a French novel. He financed two years at Dartmouth by playing his violin, lecturing to women's clubs, butlering for a professor. He took a cattle boat to Europe in 1925, soon mingled with fun-loving expatriates in Montparnasse, wrote many poems, several books (Confessions of Another Young Man, The Professor's Wife, etc.), joined the cultural circle of Gertrude Stein, Elliot Paul, James Joyce, George Antheil. When his writing failed to feed him, he lectured or fiddled in cafes. Wrote Miss Stein...
Harper is advertising 44-year-old Edward McSorley's first novel as another Tree Grows in Brooklyn. The publisher is being very optimistic about it. McSorley's kind of people are like Betty Smith's, but perhaps only Betty Smith can make a Tree...
Wesley Jackson is his first post-Army book, and his second novel (the first: The Human Comedy). He wrote Wesley in "36 or 37 days," and explains: "I think something done swiftly has a little more art in it, and by art I mean cohesion...