Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tall, blond, truthful Aryan, I am sufficiently gifted mentally and not too afraid of the sound of my own voice to ask you respectfully why The Nazi Primer was reviewed in TIME of Aug. 22 under the heading of "Non-Fiction...
...case of Japan-China, Mr. Roosevelt has so far been able to preserve the fiction that a "state of war" does not exist because it has never been "declared." He has been able to do so, without threat of impeachment, because the sentiment in Congress which rammed through the Neutrality Act is on the side of the party which the Act, if enforced, would hurt most. Unless war between Czechoslovakia, Germany and other powers were formally declared, the President could again preserve the fiction and all U. S. hands would be free from the Neutrality Act's rigid restrictions...
...political satire or as a satirical fantasy about the career of the late Huey Long with overtones of campus comedy. It lives up to football comedy better than to political satire because even that small portion of the Long career which the film considers is too strange for fiction...
...uneasily on upholstered fortunes. Although Editor Gaillard Lapsley compares scenes in The Buccaneers to passages in Proust, the comparison only calls attention to Mrs. Wharton's limitations: brilliant chapters like those laid in Saratoga fade out quickly, to be followed by weary passages scarcely superior to the average fiction in women's magazines...
...most popular of U. S. heroes is a crusading young district attorney who cleans up dirty local politics. In real life, for half a century, he or his impersonator has turned up periodically in all parts of the U. S. In fiction his reappearances are almost continuous-twice within the last fortnight in cinema alone (TIME...