Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...school. Big Men there will always be, of course, in a manner of speaking, but the possibilities of the grand style are now being drained away. No longer is one man, by virtue of combined athletic, political and social prowess, to rule, in the pages of fiction at least, the community of which he is a member--carried about the place on the shoulders of his class-mates, looked up to with awe and veneration by newcomers, toadied to by all who have, in the slightest degree, the lust for power. His hour has come, and he has been called...
...little more than five years ago and today has a circulation of practically 900,000. We have just announced an increase in advertising rates effective in January, 1928, with a guarantee of 1,000,000 circulation. There has never been, in the history of magazine publishing, a non-fiction magazine whose circulation has grown so rapidly. In fact, to the best of our knowledge, there has never been a home publication whose circulation has ever exceeded a half-million without fiction and fashions. Better Homes and Gardens has neither...
...January 1927) and guarantees 175,000 for 1928 - increases of 38% and 26%. TIME, then, well merits the title of "fastest-growing." Despite this fact, TIME does not wish to have its advertising claims questioned and shall change the line to read "fastest-growing non-fiction weekly in the U. S." and leave the title of "fastest-growing non-fiction monthly" to fast-growing Better Homes and Gardens...
...Fiction...
...Author in her critical studies, The Common Reader, made it apparent that her analytical abilities outweighed her previous achievements in fiction, Jacob's Room, Night and Day. But Mrs. Dalloway and this book mark her as one who has not only mastered the novel but extended its function...