Word: novels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...news meant that 80% of New York State would now be served by one hydro-electric company. While the headlines of Governor Roosevelt's announcement that waterpower must be saved for the public from the Power Trust were still streaming across the front pages of newspapers, reporters received a novel invitation. They were invited to assemble within the precincts of No. 23 Wall Street, the House of Morgan...
...Marshall never disclosed the amounts of his benefactions. Died. George Charles Jenks, 79, of Owasco Lake, N. Y., author (Diamond Dick stories, Stop Thief, In the Name of the Czar, The United States Mail); in Owasco. Twenty-six years ago Author Jenks started the Diamond Dick series, wrote 250 novels in four years, each 25,000 words long. Once he wrote a "dime novel" in three days...
...involved and somewhat ridiculous plot which serves as a skeleton for this lively and beautiful comedy is taken from the admirable inventions of the late great Tobias George Smollett (1721-71) in his novel The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle. Likewise the strange eloquence of the Commodore who prefaces his simplest statements with "Hear the news," whose expression of habitual astonishment is "d'you say?" and who addresses his nephew, with deep affection, as a "human mistake...
...Maurois Novel...
Atmosphere of Love is a novel, two-fold in form. In the first part Philippe Marcenat writes to his new wife Isabelle describing his great but jealous love for his previous wife, Odile, telling how she was untrue and shot herself when abandoned. In the second part Isabelle writes how Philippe "hung on. me, as one hangs a cloak on a peg, a soul much more beautiful and worthwhile than mine really was''; also how he died of pneumonia. Throughout Philippe becomes more and more transparent, leading to the conclusion: "If one truly loves, it is not really necessary...