Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Representatives last week was the Patman anti-chainstore tax bill-so stringent it would kill all interstate chains. The theory of chain-store taxing was thus approaching its major test, and propaganda against it sprouted on every side under the prodding of A. & P. Pressagents Carl Byoir & Co. Most novel prod last week was an exposition of how anti-chain agitation sometimes boomerangs against the wholesalers and independent stores by resulting in increased public recognition of chain's low prices...
Captains of the crew are traditionally strong in heart and head as well as arm. No exception was Barklie McKee Henry, Harvard's 1924 crew captain. "Buz" Henry, who was also Ibis of the Lampoon, and librettist of the Hasty Pudding show, graduated cum laude, published a novel, married rich Harry Payne Whitney's daughter Barbara...
...most gifted living women novelists are Virginia Woolf, Willa Gather, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Elizabeth Bowen. Among these, the most promising future belongs to Elizabeth Bowen. With her fifth and best novel, The Death of the Heart, she comes to the literary maturity promised in her other four-promised as far back, in fact, as the 205, when she published her first short stories in The Dial. Plain readers should find her coming-of-age as congenial as the most exacting critic...
When Miss Prall, who had recently married Sherwood Anderson, came to New Orleans, Faulkner visited her, became Anderson's close friend. He turned to novels, under Anderson's influence, wrote Soldiers' Pay. Mrs. Anderson volunteered to get Sherwood to read the book, to recommend it to Publisher Horace Liveright if he liked it. Next day she brought it back, saying. "Sherwood says if he isn't required to read this, he'll try to get Liveright to publish it." Liveright accepted it, gave Faulkner advances of $200 apiece on the next two. He dashed...
Voted the best picture of 1938 by the New York Motion Picture Critics, who may or may not have overlooked "Grand Illusion," "The Citadel" fully deserves the honors it has won. Based on Dr. A. J. Cronin's popular novel, this story of a young doctor fighting for his ideals in a money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal...