Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...succumb to a few whispered words and a brandished engraving. As traditionally gun-shy as the individual is who can afford fifty dollars for an hour's entertainment, the "con" men, the street-corner shysters, the alley speculators find him feeble when excluded by a Stadium wall. A trite fiction hoods a pillar of State Street. A hurried phrase woos a yellow back from a bond salesman. The racket flourishes as the bay tree...
...being amusing--the combination forming a nice evidence of the author's talent. Their conversation crackles with a verve that is seldom actually attained on Wall or Main or Maple Street, though, in truth, the whole book is pitched in that vivid key, kindly reserved by Providence for fiction...
...Papacy was right when it recently said that the Kellogg pact is not a novelty, but already the thousand-year-old patrimony of the Church of Rome. . . . Anyway . . . politics is an ugly fiction...
Gentlemen of the Press. The second newspaper play to arrive in town this season was immediately subjected to a comparison with the first, The Front Page, which did not thereby lose its position as a headliner. The comparison, though, was interesting for it proved that truth, stranger than fiction, is not as exciting when placed upon the stage. Gentlemen of the Press lacks the hectic, unreal, melodramatic turbulence of the Hecht-MacArthur piece and insomuch it is a more true and a less compelling drama. Ward Morehouse of the dramatic page of the New York Sun wrote it; he should...
...voted before he ever saw the sea or any Eastern city. Steeped in the Hoosier tradition, his 30-odd volumes of verse, essay, fiction, reflect the atmosphere of politics and pioneers...