Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Administration . . .," wrote he last week, "is too often undiscriminating in its interest in the novel, too likely to accept the new merely because it is new." Last week-end observers who had begun to suspect a sharp personal rift between the President and his onetime favorite Brain Truster were surprised to learn that Critic Moley had been taken for an overnight cruise to Chesapeake Bay aboard the new Presidential yacht. As the Potomac sailed back up the Potomac in a pelting rainstorm next day. wiseacres wondered whether Editor Moley was talking up to President Roosevelt in person...
...which are in a chronic state of being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...
...ISLANDS-Gerald Warner Brace- Putnam ($2.50). Readable biographic novel of a seafaring Maine lad whom a wealthy Boston spinster adopts, polishes, pushes through Harvard and almost into an unfortunate marriage. Author Brace does not quite succeed in making his taciturn hero as appealing as the more articulate, minor characters...
...STORY or A NOVEL-Thomas Wolfe -Scribner ($1.50). How Author Wolfe wrote Look Homeward, Angel, Of Time and the River and several others not yet published. An exceeding bitter cry that may throw a scare into prospective novelists...
Letters. Pulitzer novel of the year was Honey in the Horn by Harold L. Davis (TIME, Aug. 26), a long, humorous, color ful account of pioneer days in Oregon, where Author Davis was born 40 years ago. Harold Davis was the first winner of the Harper Novel Prize ($7,500) to cash in on a Pulitzer award ($1,000) as well...