Word: sensationalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Maugham admits that all his characters are based on real people, calls the practice "necessary and inevitable," but denies that he ever exhibits a complete portrait. If he did, he says, the character would seem incredible and false. What principally puzzles him is why so many critics have called...
Sex Sensation
The Victorian Age was a great believer in literary volcanoes. It preferred them extinct, but from the semi-active ones it got delightful tremors. To Victorians, Elinor Glyn might have seemed a volcano in full blast, but plain readers today will find it hard to believe that she was ever...
Shirley Temple's father is an easy-going Branch manager for the California Bank in Santa Monica; his salary is about $300 a month. He makes a habit of taking clippings about Shirley to work with him, picks up his wife and daughter at the studio on his way...
The crowning sensation of last week's killings came when Secret Police pushed into the swank suburban mansion of General Kurt von Schleicher, immediate predecessor of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor and the officer to whom it fell in 1918 to tell All Highest Wilhelm II that his army was...