Word: novels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Besides her part in the newspaper novel, Claire is runner up to Miss America for 1937-'38 at Atlantic City...
...hide the inherent weaknesses of his position. It is admitted that if people are allowed to choose their own courses free from dictation, they will blunder as often as proceed wisely. The inertia and occasional impotence of democracy are freely conceded. The communist is allowed to write a novel about the squalor that our economic system allows, as seen in the sharecroppers of the Mississippi delta...
...Novel as this request was, it failed to shock his colleagues who knew that only a few days previous Matthew Anthony Dunn had introduced a bill, solemnly referred to the Ways & Means Committee, to appropriate money to be expended within ten years "to furnish employment and to end poverty in the United States and its possessions." His proposed appropriation...
Journeyman (adapted by Alfred Hayes and Leon Alexander from the novel by Erskine Caldwell; produced by Sam Byrd). The last novel by Erskine Caldwell to be cured for the stage was Tobacco Road, now in its fifth year. His Journeyman, even though he helped direct it, will become no such theatrical Oldest Inhabitant. The story of Semon Dye (Will Geer), a rambunctious, fleshly mountebank of a traveling preacher who turns Rocky Comfort, Ga. on its ear, Journeyman'-:, gallimaufry of humors lacks bounce, its madness lacks method, its plot lacks plot. Most of the time Dye struts lungingly across the stage...
Laid against this background of Spanish disorder, Mr. Witt Among The Rebels is a deft little novel that can be read as a political study, as a love story about a discreet Englishman and an elemental Spanish girl, or as a cool satire on liberals. When the revolution broke out, Mr. Witt was a consulting engineer in the naval arsenal, a cultured, book-collecting, slightly bald Victorian gentleman of 53, whose one adventurous act had been to marry Milagritos, 18 years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene...