Word: novelization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effective sound accompaniment of guns and waves, this picture is silent, and the Admiral's orders to his fleet ("England expects every man will do his duty") and his last words to his aide ("Kiss me, Hardy") are shown in written titles borrowed from history and from the novel by E. Barrington. Victor Varconi as a handsome Nelson, H. B. Warner as a subtle cuckold, act well in episodes of which the theatricality seems no more than appropriate treatment of an age and a hero also theatrical. Best shot: the cockpit of the thundering Victory...
Pressed by a newsman to declare his pet aversion, he said, "Fools, perhaps. Scripture tells us 'Suffer fools gladly,' but Chesterton goes Scripture one better with 'Enjoy fools uproariously.' " His favorite novelist is Warwick Deeping, his favorite novel Sorrell...
...idea of plebiscites is not new, but rather an integral part of dictatorial government. It was thus used by Napoleon III who in more than one way reminds one of the present rulers of Italy in spite of their enthusiasm for the older Bonaparte. What is a little novel in these recent Italian elections is the use of 'professions' and 'trades', so-called 'corporations' as the units or precincts, thus substituting a functional for a regional division of the electorate for purposes of what is termed more 'organic' representation...
...project, from any source, is inconsiderable, and that such as exists is based on unfamiliarity with the enterprise. Members of the Faculty are, naturally enough, concerned about the details, and it is quite possible that not all agree on every item in the important undertaking which, because it is novel, is working out slowly, but the scheme as a whole is thoroughly acceptable. The graduates are almost unanimously favorable to it: at their meetings held since the announcement of Mr. Harkness's generous gift and in other places they have enthusiastically endorsed the plan, either formally or informally...
...Lawrenceville, New Jersey under the growing feeling that its subject matter and the catastrophe of the opening page would forever cut it off from a wide circle of friends. At present I have finished about a quarter of a work to be entitled "The Woman of Andros," my first novel--in the sense that the others were collections of novelettes. The new book is laid in the islands of the Aegean about 400 B. C. and, is based on the retrospective action of a comedy of Terence. Terence's play in turn was based on a lost original of Menander...