Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...falls below 200 yards, the Reading, Chelmsford and Maidstone trains creep along at 30 m.p.h., often wait 20 minutes at junctions, reach London as much as two hours late. Last week British railway technicians were hard at work trying to do something about fog-foundered trains. They had two novel gadgets, both still in the experimental stage, which might make it possible for trains to keep up their usual clip in the thickest pea-souper...
...subject is likely to be outdated by the time it is published." That didn't prevent him from writing the best-selling So Little Time. Nor does it now keep him from using the very confusions induced by a fast-changing world as the theme of his new novel, B.F.'s Daughter. It might well have been called So Little...
...shared . . . could be turned and twisted, blown to nothing by a war." How the war had done it or why is hardly clearer to the reader than it is to Polly. One suspects that it is not too clear to Mr. Marquand either. B.F.'s Daughter, an unsatisfying novel, has none of the sharpness that made The Late George Apley a definitive picture of one kind of Boston life...
Authors of "Adam the Creator" as well as the famous play of the twenties "R.U.R." in which the word "robot" was originated, the Capeks are among the outstanding Continental dramatists and are noted for their ingenious stage sets and novel plays...
...whole show (having fitted in the appropriate love affairs and local Arab color), but for Koestler it is only a beginning. By the time he is through, and for all the occasional flashes of narrative brilliance, many readers will feel that they have read not so much a novel as a kind of polemical White Paper...