Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Defect: Take issue of TIME, March 14, pp. 38 & 39, heading BOOKS and THE CREAM. "All the books here advertised are good." "No room in TIME for the second-rate." Yet under "Cream of this season's literature" you have as Fiction, Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis as the second book in the list. But on p. 38 under heading of "Bible Boar" you have a scathing criticism of the book in nearly four columns. . . . Such a book in any common use of the word is not "good" and should not be considered or advertised as "Cream." Such contradictions...
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...What onetime Chicago horsecar conductor writes notable fiction in Norway...
Among the so-called "light-fiction" monthlies, the "Cosmopolitan" is supreme, with the "Red Book" following close behind. The "American" and its how-I-became-a-successful-clothespinking stories trails a poor third, "College Humor" sells more copies than any other monthly periodical. With its collegiate cullings from all the college humorous magazines of the country except the Harvard "Lampoon", it stands in a field more or less...