Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...PILLOW-BOOK OF SEI SHONAGON- Translated by Arthur Waley-Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). The Tale of Genji, recently done into English, revealed a highly sophisticated civilization in loth Century Japan. Lady Murasaki's novel is fiction glossed with decadent romance, but her accuracy of atmosphere and circumstance is corroborated by this loth Century Japanese diary. Sei Shonagon was in the service of Empress Sadako at the elaborate court of Heian. Not the least of her qualifications for the post was her handwriting-the cult of calligraphy amounting almost to a religion at court. Love affairs often began by some chance...
...sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element has been stressed, sales methods developed for the benefit of the retailer, until now the term "travelling representative" is much more fact than fiction. Manufacturers today seek to keep the good will of the purchaser, and try in every way to keep him satisfied...
...preaches, he prays, he saves, and in the midst of thousands recruited from all levels, he sends forth his message of light. His life reads like fiction, for he has adventured upon every field aside from the platform. Gipsy Smith, "the world's best known evangelist" packs the Boston Garden, packs the Tremont Temple...
Favorite character in fiction: d'Artagnan, 19; Tom Jones, 16; Falstaff...
...same announcement, voted to a tie in selecting President-elect Herbert Hoover and Colonel Lindbergh as their favorite world figure, prefer a major "Y" to Sigma Xi, and hold Princeton as their favorite college next to Yale. Their list of favorites in various fields includes d'Artagnan in fiction; Napoleon in history; "The Three Musketeers" among novels; Dumas among prose authors; "If" among poems; and Tennyson among poets. The class favors the Republican Party over the Democratic Party by a vote...