Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...millionaire had died there recently, leaving provision for a working girl with a name something like Marie Drazdorf's, only this millionaire's name was not Scheffelbauer, but "Hans P. Leffelschmalz, the wienerschnitzer king." And Mr. Leffelschmalz had not exactly lived in Milwaukee; he had figured there in a fiction serial, written for a Milwaukee daily by one of its reporters. There was no record of a Mr. Scheffelbauer in Milwaukee, quick or dead. "Marie Drazdorf," advised the Milwaukee correspondent, "will do well not to leave her present...
...press agent inspired her to shrill: "It would be better if more young people loved music. . . . There would not be so many suicides". . . . Sociologist Rudolph Binder of New York University submitted that economic pressure was to "blame," citing suicidal phenomena during hard times and times of saturation in sentimental fiction in Germany. . . Dr. Alfred Adler of Vienna, psychoanalyst, reminded people that the motive for suicide is often a neurotic desire for revenge, as in Japanese hara-kiri (self-disembowelment) upon the doorstep of an insulter...
...Corsican, he had been sent to France to a military school because his parents were too poor to keep him at home. He brooded?shy, taciturn, lonely?while scions of the frivolous French nobility laughed at him. He wrote absurd fiction; he contemplated suicide. "Everything goes awry," said he to his diary. Then a long-smoldering idea flared up in his mind. He would get even with these Frenchmen; he would liberate Corsica from their obnoxious yoke. Three times he tried and failed. Humiliated, ousted from his native land, he went to Paris to watch the French revolution...
Biographer Emil Ludwig is no dull historian, neither is he a manufacturer of fiction. He takes the story of Napoleon, rips away the nimbus of legend, builds upon the facts of history a character that would stagger any novelist. He peeps into Napoleon's bedroom on his wedding night; he thunders across France with Napoleon in his battle carriage with maps swinging on the walls. Wisely, Mr. Ludwig has made the diaries, memoirs, reported conversations and 60,000 letters of Napoleon the bulwarks of the biography. Few men have written so much and so interestingly about themselves as did Napoleon...
...engaging Leander Snipe, who writes from upper New York State to recount the unfortunate falling out between those pillars of the Advocate's staff in other years, W. D. Edmonds and Essenz von Biershaum. Leanaer's letter has in it more life and warmth than any of the fiction to be found elsewhere in the magazine. H. W. Bragdon's "1000 Leagues to Spain" easily takes first honors among the stories and demonstrates again that young writers are likely to do their best work when they devote themselves earnestly to the understanding and delineation of character rather than...