Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many months ago joined in expressing joy at the President's reelection. For one thing, Mr. Roosevelt played Santa Claus to China with the thumping U.S.-China cotton Ioan. Proceeds of this are being used by Premier Chiang Kai-shek for public works projects in China as novel and ambitious for that country as the PWA. For another thing, the U. S. Secretary of the Treasury still controls the price of silver, which is a matter of life & death to China...
...Hull Jacobs embarked for London where she will again be the guest of U. S. Ambassador & Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham, in Palo Alto, Calif. Mrs. Eula Hull Jacobs denied that her daughter would marry the Embassy's First Secretary Herschel V. Johnson, revealed that Helen was beginning a novel "not about tennis...
...best-selling autobiography, Testament of Youth, Vera Brittain tried to "describe and assess the fate of a young generation ignorantly and involuntarily caught" in the chaos of the War and post-War years. Last week this earnest British writer offered a novel with a theme no less ambitious but a good deal less sharply defined: the relation of the feminist movement, the War and changing social standards to "the private destinies of individuals." The result is another of those curious hybrid volumes that have recently become numerous in English writing-a long (601 pages), formless book, half-tract and half...
...decision, sputtered with rage. Into the advertising columns of Manhattan newspapers last week went three-column Schick ads, quoting the decision to prove that Lektro-Shaver had been upheld only on a minor point. Best quotation in the Colonel's opinion was this: "The Schick device. . . is new, novel, and useful, and it can be well understood that in all probability this device will revolutionize the manner and method of shaving...
...left college to go to war, watched the excitement wild-eyed, as did Ernest Hemingway. His This Side of Paradise in 1920 was greeted as the first authentic novel of college life, a nervous, vibrant chronicle of post-war and youth and America. Like Hemingway, handsome active, neurotic Fitzgerald can be read in Esquire while the critics pronounce Fitzgerald and Hemingway no longer important to American literature...