Word: authorization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...their undershirts"), "The American Emotion," ("The observer of the emotional reactions of the American people is brought to the lamentable conclusion that the stimuli which produce those reactions most magnificently show a constantly increasing cheapness and standardization"), "The Motherland," "American Criticism," "The Muse in Our Midst." Unlike Mr. Mencken, Author Nathan seldom sweats or bares his teeth; he dances, like a graceful, surly, clever clown through a loud Mardi Gras of vulgarity...
...material of ensuing chapters can be deduced from their titles: "God Help the South," "Dives into Quackery," "The Pedagogy of Sex," "Appendix from Moronia." In all of them, accurate as they may be, important as they may seem, one has the picture of steaming, sweating Author Mencken, his face red from beer and the light of destructive enthusiasm, beating out penny absurdities to the amazement of an audience composed almost entirely of what he refers to as "booboisie...
...reviews and ridicules in the pages of three separate publications. He has also published The American Credo, a sort of joke book full of the nonsensical notions which U. S. citizens supposedly accept as fact. Some of these notions are merrily apposite; most are mere fictions invented by Author Nathan who sometimes (as above) seems capable of falling into his own babbit-snares. Most of his other numerous opera have dealt with the theatre. Born in Fort Wayne, Ind., he lives in Manhattan...
...Alfred Spender, author and onetime editor of the Westminster Gazette, has come to the U. S. to study newspapers. He has come as First Senior Fellow of the American Newspaper Fellowships founded in memory of Walter Hines Page, onetime Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...commit suicide. Roger, about to propose to another girl, hears of his death and the story reaches its unnecessarily happy conclusion. Despite the weakening of the last 100 pages, the adolescent anguish of Sheilah Milter is so acutely albeit theatrically probed, that Conflict is undeniably a powerful successor to Author Prouty's famed novel, later cinema, Stella Dallas...