Word: life
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More and more novels. More and more notoriety. More and more money. The Belly of Paris captured the public. Zola grew fatter, became a bluff, boorish figure in cafe & salon life. People revolted at Naturalism but read it. Staunchly its founder proceeded, one thousand words...
...Assomoir (1877) sold 100,000 copies. This drab vignette of lowly Parisian life rooted naturalism in the literary soil. Zola married an intelligent, passionate woman. He met weekly with Gustave Flaubert, Edmond de Goncourt, Alphonse Daudet, Ivan Turgeniev. He was famed, fat crammed with food. He worked incessantly ? news articles, plays, novels. His villa at Medan. outside Paris, grew in bulk and reputation. Its owner was excoriated, saluted, accused, defended. Madame Zola remained childless...
Said the Herald: "To Mr. O'Brien, in whatever work he may choose to undertake?and we hope that an adequate life of Grover Cleveland will be a part of it* the Herald wishes a continuance of health, wealth and happiness...
...Again, Life...
...above are jokes. They were printed in Life Jan. 4, the first issue under the editorship of Norman Hume Anthony (TIME, Jan. 7). They were apparently considered extraordinary jokes, for Editor Anthony reprinted them word for word in Life...