Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With as many shibboleths and countersigns as a dime novel, the Beggars have methods as effective as they are penny-dreadful. Routine and deadly are sniping isolated German soldiers, drowning them in convenient canals. "Moffen (slang for Germans) cocktails" spiked with sulfuric acid were served so freely that Germans no longer care to drink in public bars. Other favorites: poisoned pencils to be jabbed into Germans in crowds or the darkness of theatres, strychnine crystals dropped into plates of food from under the fingernails...
There were quite a few calls for weekly or bi-weekly sports dinners or luncheons, topped off with movies, speeches etc. Another suggestion designed to make members use the Club to a greater extent was that of study facilities, and there were several novel ideas for the common room--the latest swing records and some bridge tables...
...German is good but has lost many brilliant men. To a very definite extent the department is becoming limited to its main fields, but this should not discourage would-be concentrators from exploring opportunities in the less emphasized branches. Further supplementary courses such as Levin's course on the novel and Taylor's on the Medieval mind should be worked into the plan of study where possible. For these courses see the other articles on English and History
...publishers of this first novel liken its discovery to the discovery of Thomas Wolfe. In both cases the so-called "discoverer" (literary agent) was Madeleine Boyd, the manuscript was some 800,000 words long, and the original was ruthlessly cut. Like Wolfe's, Davey's novel is also utterly autobiographical...
Davey is the son of U. S. Artist Randall Davey, was genteelly educated at Lawrenceville and Princeton, spent some five years writing his novel. Good as it is, the story lacks that final intensity that would make it really comparable with Wolfe. William Davey seems the victim of an environment in which intensity does not flourish. Sophistication, a sort of post-collegiate good taste, reduce his work. Or perhaps the publishers cut too much of it away...