Word: factualism
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...racketeer, first introduced into U. S. fiction in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925). now looms large among U. S. villain-heroes. In the cinema he is still sentimentalized into a fiend or a Robin Hood, but in novels, which can afford to be more factual, he is beginning to appear in all three dimensions. Such a three-dimensional portrait of a racketeer is Brain Guy. A more honest and complete picture than The Postman Always Rings Twice (TIME, Feb. 19), it is written with lengthier brutality, will shock readers who dislike unpleasant subjects, but will entrance...
...part of many administration officials," warned Lincoln B. Palmer, general manager of A. N. P. A., "that advertising is a social and economic waste, that it should be included as a marketing cost; that even harmless trade claims should be prohibited; and that all advertisements should be strictly factual. . . . We are informed that a recently published book by Dr. Tugwell and Howard C. Hill entitled Our Economic Society is proposed to be used as an economic textbook in social science classes for the purpose of implanting anti-advertising propaganda in the adolescent mind...
...later questions. A quiet and sane outlook on the examination as a whole will enable the student better to understand what kind of answers the professor probably had in mind when he made out each individual question--and such an insight is often more valuable than last minute factual cramming. --The Princetonian...
Colonial America considered by many a dull, dry subject, is here pictured in an amusing, yet scholarly light. The lectures which could easily be boring and uninteresting contain much humor and many queer tales of "the other side" of our colonial ancestors. Although none of the essential factual detail is omitted, it is presented in a fashion which makes the hours pass rapidly and gives one more time and interest for the reading a thing which he well needs, for the assignments are not short and many of them hardly brim over with fascination...
Inspector Bony, suspended from the Sûreté Gènérale in January, was the only person to make any factual advance in the great Stavisky case last week. Fortnight ago Inspector Bony discovered the missing stubs for the checks with which Swindler Stavisky is supposed to have bribed his way to power. Last week in the municipal pawnshop of Orleans he discovered the missing jewels. After Stavisky's death no trace of them could be found. Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop...