Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recognized as a cleric (clerk) and could get his case transferred to the more lenient ecclesiastical courts. Every great university in Britain and the U.S. was founded with strong religious motives, largely to educate ministers. And until the last century the idea of education without religious instruction was as novel as the idea of travel without a horse...
Died. Elsie Clews Parsons, 66, woman anthropologist; after an appendectomy; in Manhattan. Daughter of the late banker Henry Clews, in 1906 she published The Family, a textbook which sold like a novel after its treatment of marriage drew the wrath of ministers. She wrote 21 books on anthropology, was a leading authority on Pueblo Indians...
...eleven novels published in 1941 and reported among the top five books on the New York Herald Tribune's best-seller charts throughout the year, six were published by Little, Brown. Biggest-selling novel of the year was Little, Brown's Keys of the Kingdom, by A. J. Cronin (TIME, July 21), which has been at or near the top of the list ever since the week it came out. Runners-up were James Hilton's Random Harvest and John P. Marquand's H. M. Pulham, Esquire, both Little, Brown books. Other Little, Brown hits: Nordhoff...
Carl Carmer's four volumes of non-fiction (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum, etc.) have made him one of the most popular of U.S. regional specialists. This, his first novel, is just as regional, just as competent, and will probably be even more popular than his nonfiction. Scene: Carmer's favorite Genesee country of upper New York State, where he spent his boyhood. Time: the 1790s...
...when the Ambassador presented his credentials it was in a diplomatic situation as tangled as the plot of a Dostoevski novel. The U.S. was at war with Japan (but not then with Germany) and Russia was at war with Germany (but not with Japan). Japan (with Germany and Italy) had sworn never to make a separate peace with the U.S. and Great Britain (but no such pledge was made about Russia). The U.S. declaration of war against Germany and Italy eased the Ambassador's embarrassment somewhat. But in the first hours of the war, anxious U.S. citizens created another...