Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ilka Chase's first novel is the liveliest agitation of stamens and pistil since the last flowering of the night-blooming cereus. Like the heady perfumes of its heroine (a chrome-plated Manhattan cosmetician), In Bed We Cry derives its strength from a dash of civet. The plot is a triangle whose base is always broad, whose chief points are streamlined by agelessness...
...psychiatrist who is also a Communist and something of a psychiatric case herself. But they are strong enough even when tempered with psychoanalytic jargon. Arrival and Departure is a far less important book than Koestler's Darkness at Noon, a political melodrama of the Moscow trials. Its novel contribution is in its subtle picture of the Communist use of psychiatry...
...match was the climax of the entertainment presented to the V-12 Unit in its first smoker. Other minor bouts were on the card earlier in the program matching V-12ers against each other in both boxing and wrestling, while a novel note was introduced in the bout between a wrestler and a boxer...
...attitude of elegant distaste. But there was a series of below-the-belt assaults on both candidates' patriotism, ancestry and personal morals. From unidentified quarters Bullitt was pictured as 1) Jewish, 2) anti-Jewish, 3) pro-Nazi, 4) antilabor, 5) anti-Soviet. A trashy, sexy, satirical novel authored by Bullitt in 1926 was exhumed and printed serially in the Philadelphia Daily News to brand Candidate Bullitt as a man who approved of loose living. Bullitt's lifted-pinkie horror of Philadelphia slums was interpreted as a public slur on every right-thinking Philadelphian's civic pride...
Author Hay was a science master when readers noticed his first novel, Pip (1907), a sentimental journey into average British boyhood. In the next five years, the sales of three more boysome novels made Pip into a mere squeak. Author Hay gave up teaching for writing. His most successful novels: A Knight on Wheels, A Man's Man, A Safety Match. He hit the jackpot again with Britain's popular melofarce, Tilly of Bloomsbury...