Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Readers of political fiction are well acquainted with the traditional figure of the Boss, especially the Boss in the field of municipal government. He is usually pictured with a red neck which hangs in folds over his collar. Across his paunchy stomach runs a heavy gold watch-chain. From his mouth protrudes a long, black stogy. By night he counts poker chips; by day he miscounts ballots. He has become the symbol of the U. S. civic misrule which caused the late James Bryce to say that municipal government has been the outstanding failure in the U. S. political system...
...crime reporting. After estimating that "the New York Times, which is a very thorough paper, printed more words on the Snyder trial than any other newspaper in New York," Mr. Hearst entered upon a comparison between the newspaper and the author: "There are various elements of interest in the fiction stories which appear in books and on the stage, and in the fact stories which appear in newspapers-such as romance, adventure, melodrama, comedy and tragedy. . . . "In dealing with all of these elements of interest, all of these facts of life, the editor, however, must exercise good taste. . . . just...
During the 1924 presidential campaign, much was heard concerning the "Coolidge myth." Democrats maintained that between the President's capacity and the President's reputation yawned a tremendous chasm, that a Republican press had created a fiction of a "strong, silent" White House occupant. When the President won the election with a plurality of 7,300,000 votes, they attributed his victory to the potency of the Coolidge "myth...
...FICTION...
Headed by the aspiring title, "For Recreation Read The Best", a Nation article advocates the complete and utter demolishment of what is known in publishing parlance as summer fiction. The writer very wisely points out that vacation time is just exactly when one has the most leisure and inclination to read those books which in the buster winter time have been negiected. New books are not necessarily the best says the magazine--not a thought of much startling originality but nevertheless one which bears repetition...