Word: fictions
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...Secretary of State Kellogg follows current fiction-which is doubtful, he being a very busy man-there is little likelihood that among his favorite authors is John Dos Passos, unhappy young post- warrior; author of Three Soldiers and Manhattan Transfer. Yet many a busy mind is widely inquiring. And if he did not chance to stray so far afield himself, Secretary of State Kellogg may well have had his attention called by some friend to an unusual bit of Author Dos Passos' work in the current New Masses...
...jellabias, bassourabs, girbas, tohs, fil-fil, mehara, hareem, Bismillah!-without seeming unduly affected. His dialogs crackle, his humor sparkles. He lets Mary Van- brugh mock his hero throughout with snatches from the song of Abdul, the Bulbul Emir. He introduces Mary's Cockney maid, Maudie, to ridicule "sheik fiction" of the E. M. Hull type...
...Author of this brave work is a handsome, grizzled relation of Architect Christopher Wren (1632-1723), now not far from 60, who has occupied his lively mind with fiction-writing since terminating a most gallant career in his motherland's military and the French Foreign Legion. He has never visited the U. S., but will soon, ostensibly to sample the California climate but also to see with his own eyes large masses of the people whose literary a.nd cinematic blood-thirst has caused his last two books to sell into the hundreds of thousands. Big-game hunter, explorer, golfer...
...masculinity of U. S. newspapers is as proverbial as the femininity of U. S. magazines.. For years magazines have catered more and more to women's taste in fiction, fashions, photography, pornography; newspapers have come bravely to the defense of the fading male. Ever since the days when horsewhips and double-derringers dictated the editorial policies of the better southern and western papers, editors have denounced everything that smacked of the foppish, the exquisite, and, above all, the epicene. Last week, to one of the editorial writers of the Chicago Tribune, came an unequalled opportunity to demonstrate...
...this respect his desires are fulfilled. Just as Mathematician Charles L. Dodgson quite vanished behind Lewis ("Wonderland") Carroll, so Political Economist Dr. Leacock is concealed- save where the solid metal of sense frequently thrusts through the dazzling enamel of nonsense- behind the author of Literary Lapses, Frenzied Fiction, Further Foolishness, etc., etc. These books, he modestly says, are "of so humorous a character that for many years it was found impossible to print them. The compositors fell back from their task suffocated with laughter...