Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...FICTION...
Truth had the reputation of being stranger than fiction, but there can be little doubt that that honor was ill-deserved. From back pages of the daily journals, from "Whiz Bang", from the over-fertilized imaginations of the presumably witty, come combinations of words rarely before encountered. "Men Without Women", "Judd, Ruth and the Sashweight", "Browning and Three Peaches", just growed for the occasion. They could not have had a prior raison d'etre and we trust will sink into that impenetrable oblivion which we feel sure awaits them...
Social workers should include fiction in their homework. Novelists know more about life and are better observers than the serious "workers." So said Miss Lorine Pruette, writer, psychologist, at the meeting of the American Council of Learned Societies-17 scientific bodies specializing in history, economics, sociology...
...desiring to write down a narrative of embryonic genius, was faced with a dilemma. To explicate the later prowess of the boy she writes about, to give to the man's career, after her history of his boyhood has been concluded, the semblance of truth, to make her fiction about his youth appear to be a biographical rather than an invented recountal, she imagines herself writing the book long after David Schuyler has become President of the U. S. It can be supposed that he became President in about 1950, that the book is written perhaps 25 years after...
...FICTION...