Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even so, there was no violence, hardly even a rise in tempers. In Pittsburgh, a judge issued an injunction limiting pickets at Carnegie-Illinois' Homestead plant to ten at each gate. The union protested, but obeyed. In Manhattan, Novelist Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls) formed a committee to raise funds for G.M. strikers, got $35,000 in three days from a heterogeneous list of contributors who agreed with the slogan "Hunger Must Not 'Be a Weapon." The committee promptly began sending the money out to buy food and pay rents. In New York, the city's Welfare...
...current word for it at Wisconsin's Beloit College. It applies to homecomings, and to "hell weeks" (during which freshman coeds have to do such tricks as painting class numerals on their cheeks and dancing the conga backwards). Last week Beloit had an official party, with Novelist Lin Yutang as an honored guest, to celebrate its 100th birthday...
...Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Most of its once gracious plantation houses were boarded up or falling apart; most of their predominantly Creole, sugar-planting owners had moved on. But among the thronging revenants in this graveyard of a once graceful provincial culture, there were a few surviving residents. Novelist Keyes decided to report their struggle to survive...
...Baton Rouge stenographer who proves to be a strong prop of plantation life. There is Gervais' sister Cresside, a wild sprig who turns into a solid prop of the proprieties. There are, in fact, so many d'Alverys and other characters that some readers may wish that Novelist Keyes had supplied a dynastic chart and dramatis personae as meticulous as her map of Belle Heloise...
...Author. Tall, pale, chronically ailing George Orwell, 42, leads an unspectacular domestic life in the suburbs of London. A critic, essayist and novelist (A Clergyman's Daughter), Orwell contributes (in Britain) to his schoolmate Critic Cyril Connolly's highbrow monthly Horizon and to the leftist Tribune. In the U.S. his London Letter to Manhattan's Trot-skyoid quarterly Partisan RevIew has contained some of the war's most trenchant reporting on British politics, the Home Guard (Orwell was a member), black-market shenanigans...