Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know so much make me laugh. Your review of Hemenway's latest book, To Have and Have Not, which sounded so good don't stick in one particular. Why, he wrote the first part of that book three, four years ago. I read it as a short novel fore I come in the Navy two year ago tenth of next month-in Cosmo, seems like I remember. The Spanish dident even know they was going to have a war then...
...several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
Joseph Smith, a diffident, conscientious young man with moist hands and an awkward, absent-minded manner, was head gardener at Wotton Vanborough. In this subtly cockeyed novel so much is clear from the start. And his master, Sir John, was the son of a courtly rake whose adventures in the Edwardian era had burdened a number of titled matrons with offspring of discreetly doubtful parentage. One of the doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also...
...manifestoes (I Take My Stand) advocating return to an agrarian economy, magazines (The Southern Review et al.) and poetry societies whose interests are about equally divided between the high brow and the horny hand. To this rebel activity Caroline Gordon has contributed a five-generation family chronicle (Penhally), a novel glorifying the unindustrialized purity of a sportsman (Aleck Maury: Sportsman), a recent Civil War novel (None Shall Look Back)-thus following the approved regionalist tactics of firing from the safely concealed ambush of the South's past...
...They fought for the right to rule, she fought for the right to love," and "The Prisoner of Zenda" lends itself to the screen in a manner that will not embarrass lovers of Anthony Hope's famous novel. Though we are given a touching and absorbing love story, as the picture unfolds, its spirit of high adventure and not its love sequences is what makes it a top notch film...