Word: fictions
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Cherry Tree. "The Cannot-Tell-a-Lie incident of the cherry tree and the hatchet is a brazen piece of fiction made up by a minister named the Rev. Mason L. Weems, who wrote a life of our country's father which is stuffed with this and similar fables...
...after they learn that the long, frank fourth chapter is on "Homosexuality." There is even the statement: "If man is polygamous, woman is polyandrous," with the usual demonstration that each is nothing of the kind. If that fails to reassure the timid, let them turn to "Do Characters in Fiction Behave Like Human Beings" for fresh proof that this doctor's interests and understanding can reach from Harold Bell Wright to Anatole France without losing sight of actual human conduct. Let them examine "The Fundamentalists and Modernists of Psychology" and be assured that Dr. Collins takes his Freud with...
...fictitious figures and in the host of minor characters that surrounds them: Sam's dour man-of-all-work, Wrenkin; Andy's idolized, pious old mother; Sam's business factotum, Swetnam; a mystical middle-aged stenographer, Mrs. Blacklow, "the most explicitly expectant mother in fiction...
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JAMES BRANCH CABELL is fond of pointing out that two-thirds of fiction consists of variations of the Cinderella myth. "Miss Tiverton Goes Out" upholds this theory; but the Juliet of the story is a new kind of Cinderella. She has looked carefully at the Prince's clay feet and already knows too much about the ashes on the hearth: she comes to the unconventional conclusion that she desires no portion in either...