Word: fictions
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...included-lost control over head, heart and hand. When he had done and the Party lived, the stenographers and reporters shudderingly discovered that they had let mighty-worded history fly out of the window. The Morrow version of that event, which aims at being "a very appealing piece of fiction," fabricates a Rose Franklin, Iphigeneia of the period, to collaborate with Lincoln on his very lofty plane of motives. Her part is to forswear, at Lincoln's behest, a well beloved fianceé, in the interest of political lubrication. At this she is most satisfactory, as is the centre...
...hold on the ventricles of the U. S. public. Even his illustrated bridge pads are said to get laughs from Long Island to Los Angeles. Now, through the Barnum-and-Baileys of the publishing business, he presents a whole book about his cigar-chewing, telephoning, lying, bluffing, smirking, grinning fiction, the Great American Poker Player, trigged out with dialog and dialects by the satisfying Messrs. Ade and Connelly. Mr. Foster, aspirant to the shoes of Edmond Hoyle as chief U. S. oracle on games of chance, furnishes convincing statistics. If you play poker, you may recognize yourself. If you cannot...
...truth being stranger than fiction, they behaved themselves in most pacific manner, resembled a gathering of learned pedants...
...Liberty (fiction weekly), Entertainer Elsie Janis published a piece, Every Day Is Mother...
...Pulitzer Prize Play. The chairman at the next session called the roll of the states and found that one and all were fondly familiar with The Awakening of Helena Ritchie, The Iron Woman and Old Chester Tales, whose author, Mrs. Margaret Deland, then took the platform to declare that fiction is footless unless founded in fact...