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Word: novelized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Senior John A. West Jr., like many another near-graduate, began to think about getting a job. Having failed to get one by ordinary methods, John West tried a novel scheme. He wrote a note, made 81 copies, slipped each copy into a bottle, mailed the bottles to 81 advertising agencies. His note: "Stranded! On an island in Cambridge, Mass., a college graduate-to-be in June, will work like hell for passage into port. Gold stored here with me (training in arts, sciences, business . . .). You're going ahead and I'm going your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Stranded | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Next two days, the writer-delegates got together in closed meetings at the New School for Social Research. A critics' group argued the merits of Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath (verdict: an exciting novel with a weak last half). A verse group was entertained by Dorothy Parker with a speech called Sophisticated Verse, and the hell with it. A fiction group heard a dozen speeches, ranging from talks on how to worm social-conscious fiction into pulp magazines to Dashiell Hammett's warning that Hollywood techniques are poison to novelists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Writers' Congress | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Many a young English novel today is obsessed with the fear of war, Fascism, Communism, Democracy's collapse, neurosis. Allegorical figures of Fascism, Communism, Democracy wrestle semi-essay-istically, through Wellsian plots, with a hero nebulous enough to squeeze at last into some sort of mystical bomb shelter. Such novels seem curiously at odds with the authors' vigorous personal activities-mountain climbing, travel, hiking, sports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fantastic First | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

Latest of such stories is The Wings of the Morning, a 500-page fantasy by a 28-year-old Englishman who works for a London printing firm, flies a plane, likes good food and wine, fast horses and cars. His first published novel, The Wings of the Morning, tells of a medical genius who becomes equally famed as a best-selling satirist. When his young wife, a beautiful Communist, is killed in an accident, the doctor retires snarling to a cottage, makes friends with a philosopher-cop, gets mixed up in the strange suicide of an egomaniac artist, who personifies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fantastic First | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

...traveling salesman himself at 15, studied law, took up journalism before he married Josephine Herbst (Nothing Is Sacred, Money for Love), published a book, What Happens, in Paris in 1926. In 1932 he shared with Thomas Wolfe a $5,000 prize in a Scribner's short-novel contest. Herrmann's work, Big Little Trip, was about a jewelry salesman who oversold his customers. The Salesman suggests that its author is oversold on salesmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sales Talk | 6/12/1939 | See Source »

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