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Word: fictionist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall, 44, a onetime pulp-fictionist whose earlier bedroom gambol, Kitty, was turned into a bland costume piece by Hollywood, wrote her first novel (30 pages) at seven. Its conclusion: "He gazed into her eyes and said, 'Will you marry me?' Only the stars heard the answer as they crept under the bushes." No such childish restraint mars Duchess Hotspur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLISHING: The Professors Step Out | 5/20/1946 | See Source »

...Scenarist-Fictionist Raine (Tugboat Annie), who criticized Eire's refusal to let Britain use Irish ports as illogical and unrealistic, replies thus to Reader O'Malley's question: "NUAIR ITH-EANN NA H-EIRENNAIGH FEOIL DIA H-AOINE, IOSFAD I ACHT NIL AON GOILE AGAM DO MADADH FEOIL." Translation from the Gaelic: "When Catholic Eire eats flesh on Friday, so shall I- but I have a poor stomach for dog meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 6, 1941 | 1/6/1941 | See Source »

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