Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mercury has brought to birth such writers as James Stephens, who, it is implied, might never otherwise have found a patron. It has printed the best poetry and fiction; if it has used few stories and fewer lyrics, that is because there have been no others good enough...
This, no doubt, surprised Liberty readers, many of whom regard the magazine as light entertainment (in fiction and article). But Liberty has flayed Prohibition, on occasion, on its editorial page; has published articles revealing the iniquities of bootleggers and Prohibition agents...
Dumas' story of the diamond necklace, cause celebre, E. Barrington dismisses for its fictional parts and characters. "It needs no decoration from fiction, and I have told it as it happened . . . merely touching history with imagination and making the true characters live." Marie Antoinette was a lovely martyr in white dimity and ash-gold hair; Louis, her royal spouse, a wistful dullard who would have made an honest artisan. The worldly cardinal who passionately loved Antoinette nevertheless caused her miserable downfall because he was the dupe of a scheming court slut. This clever minx stole the necklace, implicated...
Have you read John Brown's Body yet? Crictics, call it has greatest American poem--but its as fascinating as a novel and just as easy to read. Nearly a hundred thousand people have discovered that here at last is a poem more thrilling than fiction--a poem of glamorous history, inspiring biography, tender, gallant romance...
Died. William James Flynn, 60, one-time chief of the U. S. Secret Service (1912-17), recently head of the Flynn Detective Agency, editor of Flynn's Weekly (Crime Fiction); of heart disease; in Larchmont...