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The art of history writing is one which has gone through countless phases. There has been the tribal story handed from generation to generation by word of mouth or drawn on the walls of caves. Later came the sagas of the heros, more myth than fact. Some nations like the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE WHOLE TRUTH | 4/17/1928 | See Source »

In the days before publicity because a business and before notoriety became as interesting as fame, popular imagination was fired by ballads or sagas on legends that passed from mouth to mouth. Now that pink newspapers and catchy captions have taken upon themselves the task of transmitting popular legends at...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MODERN MYTHS | 10/5/1927 | See Source »

The Scroll of history is replete with stories that stir the heart and fire the naggination. Sagas of the rise and fall of nations like the total annihilation of Carthage in a single month, or the great movement that started from the cave of Vallombrosa to carry out its dream...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT VAGABOND | 12/20/1926 | See Source »

In professional religion, as in professional politics, sagas are kept alive. Last week, America, Jesuit weekly, took occasion to address itself to the Roosevelt-Pope episode-apropos of the publication of the syndicated Roosevelt-Lodge letters.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Practically Insulted | 4/6/1925 | See Source »

They say that there was considerable of a struggle in the breast of the producer before they decided to leave this title in its place. It didn't seem to suggest bootlegging, seduction, happiness or any of the few inevitables for which people are supposed to go to cinema...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Feb. 23, 1925 | 2/23/1925 | See Source »

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