Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Established in 1931 from a bequest of the late Archibald C. Coolidge '87, this professorship "in modern European or Asiatic History" bears the novel stipulation that on vacancy it may at the University's discretion be filled or remain unoccupied with accumulation of income...
...police with a story of how she had paid $200 as a mitzvah for her paralyzed daughter and was now wondering if she had been swindled. Upon investigation of Mrs. Seigel's complaint the Brooklyn district attorney declared that the police had turned up "one of the most novel and extensive rackets for mulcting the poor and afflicted people which has ever come to my attention...
...Moore's books, wanted him to defend himself. Moore calmly admitted he had lifted ten pages without acknowledgment. The quarrel that finally broke up their friendship was over a scenario on which they had collaborated for a proposed play. Moore wired Yeats that he had written a novel on the subject, threatened an injunction if Yeats tried to use it. Furious, Yeats got together with Lady Gregory and another friend, ground out the play in a fortnight, published it in an Irish newspaper, spiked Moore's guns. Yeats admits that he looks back on the incident "with some...
...South Riding" is the last novel written by Winifred Holtby, who died in September, 1935. Showing a definite growth in maturity of conception and expression, it does not, like the author's "Poor Caroline", extrude mechanical ingenuity; and the political doctrine of "Mandoa, Mandoa!", that popular government ignores the individual, is presented with new subtlety...
...lives of all these people cross and recross: one sees events from varied points of view. Occasionally a chapter--for example, that called "Nancy Mitchell Keeps Her Dignity"--emerges a polished short story, but always the incidents are a part of the whole, which is a social novel written in Miss Holtby's competent, good-humored style...