Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...redefined. But many a reader of James Shore's Daughter will wish that Poet Benét had not taken a vacation in prose. What Lewis Mumford (see below) would call "fatally readable," James Shore's Daughter has the faint odor of a Richard Harding Davis novel that has survived a little too long. Those who never expected much from Author Benét will take the book for what it is—a pleasantly nostalgic romance; but those who thought John Brown's Body promised even higher flights may be offended...
Nearly a thousand ravenous Freshmen, repairing to the Union for their noonday repast yesterday were pleased to discover that a charitable act of the Union authorities had resulted in an unusually tasty dish. Large doughnuts with applesauce were the novel delicacy which aided the Girl Scouts of Cambridge in their "Doughnut Day" charity drive. They made sales as well in the Houses...
...other film, "The Lost Patrol" has been hailed as one of the best pictures of the year. Supposedly, it holds the audience in suspense; its vague moral gives the impression of extreme profundity; and the lack of women in the east gives the movie goer a novel experience...
...young left-wing novelists, grumble that these youths have sold their birthright of dreams for a mess of revolutionary economics. Left-wing critics retort that while the nightmare of the capitalist system persists, no young writer worth his salt can close his eyes to it. Many a "proletarian novel" is rightly thrown out of the literary court as mere advertising for the Communist cause; but the literary sergeants-at-arms will think twice before they begin hustling Robert Cantwell's Land of Plenty. Though diehard right-wingers will call it propaganda, most readers will find it troubling, critics...
...young. Born in Little Falls, Wash., he had one year at the University Of Washington, then went to work in a veneer plant. In the course of his labors all over the U. S. he met and married a girl from Baton Rouge, went to Manhattan, published a novel (Laugh & Lie Down) which impressed critics. He has had seasoned, well-written book reviews in The New Outlook, The New Republic, the New York World-Telegram. Now in Boston, he is working with Lincoln Steffens, famed libertarian and muckraker, on a biography of Merchant Edward A. Filene...