Word: authorities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Beau Gallant. The author of this fable attempted to glorify the American gentleman. He chose a type of Gentleman that is dying out. His hero is a man who will not work and who tries to make an Art out of clothes, cuisine and calling cards. He goes broke and is terribly insulted by sheriffs and by well meaning friends who try to lend him money. In the background hovers, inevitably, a girl, to say nothing of a rich uncle from South America. Lionel Atwill does his very best to make a silk purse out of a stuffed shirt...
...days later, Editor Mencken was informed that the U. S. Post Office Department had barred from the mails not only the issue of the American Mercury containing "Hatrack," but all reprints in whatever form. At Farmington, Mo., home town of Hatrack and of the author of "Hatrack" (Herbert Asbury, a member of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune), Rev. Frank T. Jarnigan exulted: "This is one of the greatest moral victories Farmington has ever won." He intimated that prayers of thanksgiving would be said in his church (Methodist) and a congratulatory message sent to the Postmaster General...
Engaged. John Chipman Farrar, editor of the Bookman, author of Songs for Parents, The Magic Sea Shell, etc.; to Miss Margaret Petherbridge, cross word puzzle editor of the New York World, co-author of the Simon and Schuster crossword puzzle books, daughter of H. W. Petherbridge, treasurer of the National Licorice Co. of Brooklyn. He and she graduated, in 1919, respectively from Yale and Smith Colleges, and both joined the staff of the World soon afterward. He left the World to edit the Bookman in 1921 and was made a general editorial adviser to its publishers, George H. Doran...
...Significance. Mr. Bullitt's story is too crisp and close-packed for adequate retelling. It is set down with a force, sweep and wine-laden atmosphere quite its own. On these first credentials alone the author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...
...Author. William Christian Bullitt is a 35-year-old Philadelphian who, after a brilliant career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor...