Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroads, now bursting with health, this novel remedy against another relapse was not as exciting as it would have been a few years ago. This year they plan to retire another $500 million of debt. Thus, by 1945 the backbreaking funded debt of $11.9 billion in 1930 will have been cut, through reorganizations and debt retirement, to $5.9 billion. Even if Congress refuses to adopt the ICC conversion plan, only a catastrophic depression year, far worse than 1932, could drive rail earnings under the $250 million needed to service this new streamlined debt...
...combination dining and living room, his back to the window that overlooks Mexico City to the south and, beyond it, the mountain ranges hemming in the Valley of Mexico. For six or seven hours each day, he traces out the involved characters and the complicated situations of the giant novel that already runs to 5,822 printed pages...
When the war began, Romains had finished eight volumes of his novel (16 in the French edition). Published in December 1939 was Verdun, a merciless account of World War I slaughter, and a harrowing picture of inhuman French officership...
...real Ripper (who was never caught) cut the throats of and expertly mutilated six prostitutes. As fictionized in Mrs. Belloc Lowndes's famed thriller, The Lodger, he was less shocking, was motivated by religious mania. The screen Ripper, derived from Mrs. Lowndes's novel, is even less shocking. In part this is due to the fact that the audience knows from the start that Laird Cregar is the Ripper, so that the suspense is purely academic. In part it is due to the incredible elegance of the production and photography, which makes the whole film more memorable...
...Boyle has sold the Left Bank down the river. For some 20 years a per sistent expatriate, Minnesota-born Novel ist Boyle is the author of Gentlemen, I Address You Privately, Plagued by the Nightingale and eleven other volumes about complex, erratic and usually perverse characters. Author Boyle's writing has been called "obscure," "elliptical," "addled," "sinewy," and possessed of a "cold greenish brilliance...