Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years Eduardo Barriobero was a Clarence Darrow of Spain. Brilliant, provocative, radical, he pleaded many a completely hopeless case and was never happier than when he had a political martyr to defend. Violently anticlerical and stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Ibañez novel. He was such an individualist that no pat modern political name-calling would fit him, no government could have suited him. More a syndicalist than anything else, he belonged to the fast dwindling group of Spanish Federalists...
...Circle aims to stand or fall by a novel format of radio entertainment-a round-table type of informal-sounding chatter about anything under the limited radio sun, participated in by the elect of the entertaining world. The informality is achieved by the cast sitting down with the script writers few days before, sometimes tussling all night with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were...
...Wild Goose Chase, an imaginative first novel which perhaps deserved more readers than it got, Rex Warner wrote a modern allegory combining athletic prose, adventurous satire, thriller action. Less allegorical and more exciting, The Professor comes nearest to an English It Can't Happen Here, skids nearer plausibility than Sinclair Lewis' political goose-bumper...
...mysterious detective, he tolerantly overlooks their youthful extremism. By the time he catches on, the Fascist armies are rolling in and the Professor is in prison, marked for execution "while attempting to escape." In plot, The Professor might be called downright hackneyed, but no anti-fascist novel has contained more skilful individual scenes-the Professor looking over a display of stylish gas masks, listening to soap-boxers in the park, his encounter with an old classmate turned Fascist, his dreams following a narrow escape from assassination, his doting attentions to his Fascist mistress...
...subtitle of William Harlan Hale's novel about Hannibal Hooker puts the tumbril before the horse: His Death and Adventures. This inversion is no accident...