Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. Not often does a first novel carry a weight of emotion that makes so fussy a critic as famed Alfred Noyes say: "It is the kind of novel that might have been written by Keats. . . ." The untruth of this statement is valuable as an indication of the flustered enthusiasm this book has caused, will cause in multitudes of unstable and sentimental readers. Yet it would be unfair to hint that the sentimentality of Dusty Answer is a false emotion. Though it may be an exaggerated one, its exaggeration is a sincere illusion, not a self-conscious parade of intensity...
...tutorial system in Harvard College is curiously unsystematized," was the charge made by Conrad Aiken '11, poet and novelist. Mr. Aiken, whose latest novel, "Blue Voyage", has just been published, is acting as a tutor-in the English department this year...
...theatre and breaking its spell whenever.the audience begins to succumb to what might have been effective historical drama. It was written by Maurine Watkins, a young woman who last year attracted attention by a sound piece of debunking called Chicago. She took her material for Revelry from the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and for local color she went to Washington, moseyed about the lobby halls, chatted with the politicians, pried, snooped, took notes. To see Miss Watkins, whose beauty is fresh and sweet as the first blush of a primrose, one won- ders how she ever accumulated the authentic...
Five years later, the boy sold a short story and at 20 his first novel came out. His father died and for a while Author Oppenheim had to manage the family leather business in Leicester. Thereafter and down to the present stretched 40 years of turning out at least two novels per annum...
...Oppenheim's homes are on the French Riviera (Cagnes) and in London. Without professing to be a prophet, he notes that he foretold the Boer War in one novel, the World War in 14 novels. He was said to be on a list of Londoners to be shot at once when the Germans should conquer England, whose Intelligence Service he assisted...