Word: nana
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Significance. There is a supposition that Nana, Naturalist Zola's novel, includes some Menken escapades. Nana, one of the realest characters of all fiction, lives and breathes lustily for present-day readers while Adah Menken, who lived just as lustily, pulsates feebly in Author Oursler's sentimental brief. Yet whether or not the "spirit" he discusses is more Oursler than Menken, Author Oursler has succeeded in writing the first book about a U.S. figurine no less famed in her day than Isadora Duncan, Aimee Semple MacPherson, Peggy Hopkins Joyce...
...North American Newspaper Alliance,, "NANA," serves many a U. S. and foreign newspaper with syndicated articles, with news-giving stories. Fortnight ago, Henry Ford agreed to give an exclusive interview every week to A. M. Smith, able Detroit NANA newsgatherer who has "covered" Motorman Ford for some time...
...first Smith-Ford interview which appeared in NANA-serviced newspapers last Saturday afternoon and Sunday, Motorman Ford had talked to Newsgatherer Smith on aviation. Astounded were some airmen, disgruntled were a few at some of the airwise remarks Motorman Ford made. Excerpts...
...Prince stared at the bosom and hips of his hostess. Emile Zola stared also, fixed her image in his mind. Later he would transfer it into words. That night the Prince escorted the actress from the theatre. But Zola returned to the portfolio of notes for his next novel, Nana, a saga of sensuality...
...incident is typical of Zola. For the 20 novels of his Rougon-Macquart series he investigated every form of humanity from gigolo to genius. His notebooks fattened with vicarious experiences. Nana's obscene smiles were for his pages, not for him. Called by the public Dr. Filth, the slimy Giant, he was in reality a clinical analyst of living. His private life was of astounding purity. His livelihood was labor, his distraction more labor...