Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Dr. John Earle Uhler, ousted from Louisiana State University last October because of his novel Cane Juice (TIME, Oct. 26), was closed last fortnight when the University paid his year's salary in full. The American Civil Liberties Union, which had wished a court action, uttered grumps...
...after it opens at the Booth Theater in New York City. It is described as a play of family life. Mr. van Druten is also the author of "Young Woodley", which had a successful run in New York in 1925, and of "A Woman on Her Way", a novel published last year by Mr. Knopf...
Aiming to be "American in the sense that the writings of Lincoln, Roosevelt and Wilson are American," a new Bible came off the presses last fortnight printed and bound like any novel. Eleventh version in English since King James I's 54 scholars issued their revision in 1611, The American Bible is newly translated from the original texts, result of some six years of labor by five able savants.* Secular in appearance but convenient to the eye are its single-column pages, dialog in quotation marks, with subtitles and paragraph headings; verse numbers are set in the margins...
...lovely, flaccid Helen of Troy could be profitably refurbished by giving her pert ideas of her own in a modern novel, what is to hinder a ribby old cow from knowing a thing or two of the world's ways and expressing herself in song? The ribby old cow may be too old for milk. To be comprehensible to humans, she may have to make herself ridiculous, become a synthetic vaudeville kind of beast with humans installed fore & aft to walk, talk and sing for her. Even so, such a cow serves excellently to point the plot of Jack...
...Author- Margaret Kennedy (Mrs. David Davies) dictated stories before she could read or write, wrote her first novel, Laura, at 15. She burned it soon after, as she did four more novels, three plays. She went to Somerville College, Oxford, sang in Sir Hugh Allen's famous Bach choir. After she took her degree she was commissioned to write a modern European history textbook (A Century of Revolution) over which she spent two years, from which she gained much useful writing practice. With her second published novel (The Constant Nymph, 1924) she became a bestseller. Very English-looking, with...