Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their child boss is a cool, foresighted "premier," whose methodical plans for organized robbery are constantly upset by romantic little upstarts who think it is heroic to disregard orders and rules, to thieve when & where they will. At the premier's elbow is a sage elder statesman (aged 12...
John Moore's studies of men and manners in the Cotswolds, as presented in Brensham Village and its predecessor The Fair Field (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), will do for the U.S. reader what Hollywood did for Lord Orris-transport him into an overseas dreamland whose main charm is its...
Blossom & Shadow. Author Moore allows that Brensham village has its troubles. When the frost strikes the blossoms of its innumerable orchards, the village goes half-penniless the remainder of the year. When rich Londoners buy up and "develop" the mad lord's crazy, romantic acres, poachers and gypsies foresee...
Mister Roberts. Rowdy, romantic yarn of life on a cargo ship during (but far from) the war (TIME, March I).
Suffering from a lack of esoteric competitors in book collecting are the William Harris Arnold and Gertrude Weld Arnold prizes, and any admirer of Romantic Eccentrics who would render his thoughts into prose can clean up in the John Ruskin Prize derby.