Word: fictions
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...visited Egypt in the course of his wanderings, has left a vast legacy of the stories and superstitions current in his day. The tales regarding kings buried deep in the rock under the pyramids have been relegated with the tales of black magic and priestcraft to the confines of fiction. All have been considered too far fetched to be true. The truth of the statements with regard to Gizeh seems now in a fair way to become proven conclusively...
...hilarious. The piece is based on an old one of William Collier's called Never Say Die, and relates the adventures of a young man whom the doctors had allotted one more month to live. Said critics: "It is funny, is it not? how fellows like that in fiction always make a fool out of the doctors. The American Medical Association ought to do something about...
...FICTION...
...Counterfeiting. Writers of detective fiction lamented that last week's superfluity of revelations could not have been doled out in installments and syndicated somewhat as follows...
...sets itself to discover the new America that contains great corporations and great trade unions, New York skyscrapers, Chicago stockyards, Pittsburgh steel mills, Florida land-rushes. West Virginia strikes, Herrin massacres, Ku Klux Klans, Legions and Leagues, labor spies, tabloid newspapers, jazz, lynching, sports, mortgaged farms, farm trusts, romantic fiction magazines, movies, bunk morality, bunk religion, bunk politics, imperialistic adventures-the new America that all the rest of the world watches with mingled horror and admiration...