Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody was inventing something when Mark Twain was writing some of the greatest U.S. fiction ever penned; so Mark, to whom nothing American was alien, was bound to catch the fever. "An inventor is a poet-a true poet!" he cried, when his brother, Orion Clemens, invented a "modest little drilling machine." "To invent. . . shows the presence of the patrician blood of intellect-that 'round & top of sovereignty' which separates its possessor from the common multitude & marks him as one not beholden to the caprices of politics but endowed with greatness in his own right...
Last week customers were snapping up the 8,000 copies of their fifth issue, and the two G.I.s had $5,000 in the bank. Inside the magazine's chaste blue cover were plenty of ads, dashes of fiction and poetry, an article by Saturday Evening Post Associate Editor Edgar Snow, predicting no big war in the next ten years...
...Montezuma Fiction...
...Certainly," said the Devil. "In my line we try to keep up with all the latest religious fiction. Rather a bore these days. But The Gauntlet has something special...
...fiction writers laid one golden egg after another and sold them for golden prices. The public craved, and was given, gulps of cloak-&-dagger melodrama or sack-suit passion. Some of the year's novelists managed, with the help of book clubs and cinemagnates, to earn a life annuity with a single book. Among the bestsellers...