Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sale in the world," more than 2,000,000 a month, True Story sets the fashion in sex yarns. In May 1919, its first issue appeared with some sober items about Elsie Ferguson, Billie Burke, William S. Hart, Douglas Fair banks. But the meat of the magazine was confession fiction. Of these stories, six contained attempted seductions, three contained successful seductions. A successful one was described as follows: "His kisses intoxicated me. Everything seemed to slip away...
Joyce Hawley at the Senior Spread was something the mind balked at. It was a master fiction, too mighty for the ordinary mind, and was given no credence at Harvard and only a brief consideration beside the Basin...
...Senator Johnson chosen, he could have quoted Writer Hurst much further with potent effect. She, outstanding "throb" artist in U. S. fiction, at last had a subject which even her clotted vocabulary did not seem to burlesque. Other Hurstian patches on the strike were...
Sirs: Twice within a year or so I have read references to F. G. Bonfils, publisher of the Denver Post, in your columns. The first was occasioned by the entrance of Scripps-Howard into the Denver newspaper field. That article, while it mingled fiction and fact, was not, as a whole, unkindly. . . . The second article, published in your issue of Jan. 9 and dealing with the dedication of his great fortune to the cause of humanity, was totally lacking in these attributes. On first reading it seemed to drip venom. After a second perusal, however, I doubt if its maliciousness...
...second balcony but occasionally a true aesthete slips unbeknownst into the orchestra) are those who have come really to appreciate and to enjoy the sonorous grandeurs of the opera. For them the occasion is more than a display of what adorns the better vertebrae. And, contrary to fiction, an ability to eat spaghetti and bellow bravo is not a requisite for inclusion in the intelligentsia...