Word: brights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bright green covers?an excellent contrast with the orange coat of its English namesake, The London Mercury?Alfred A. Knopf presented for the first time The American Mercury with H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Messrs. Mencken and Nathan have produced a different product, but of a sort allied to their last magazine The Smart...
Poets Keep on Publishing Books HARMONIUM - Wallace Stevens - Knopf ($2.00) matches its odd, bright cover. The titles of the poems show the mood, Peter Quince at the Clavier, The Comedian as the Letter C, Hymn from a Watermelon Pavilion, Colloquy with a Polish Aunt, "princox, citherns, toucans, gasconade." Intellectual gymnastics, the tight-lipped playfulness of a strange imagination, sonatas for the piccolo-much that is merely sterile grotesquery - occasionally individual beauty, unfashionably arrayed but genuine-half-a-dozen or a dozen poems, firm-fibred, original, distinguished, ensuring for Mr. Stevens a small but positive niche in the imaginary Valhalla...
...petered out some time ago. To rejuvenate it some ingenious genius was required to put his brains upon the rack. Unhappily the German authors and the American adapter seem to have foregone this necessary process. Their play falls, therefore, into the vast field of inconsiderable amusement. It has its bright lines; yet all lines that glitter are not necessarily dramatic gold...
...prospects for a successful track season in 1924 are as bright as they have been for many years. For the indoor season, beyond which predictions are impossible, the material is certainly promising. In addition to several H men, Coach Farrell will have at his disposal a large quantity of '26 numeral...
David Lloyd George, Liberal candidate for Carnarvon, made speeches in Wales and Lancashire. At Bolton, speaking with a microphone in his hand, he said: "John Bright's victory was a Lancashire victory." Then, in aside: "What about Cobden ? Was he a Lancashire man ?" The crowd, of course, heard him distinctly and hooted with mirth; whereupon Mr. George commented: "This is a mischevious instrument. I wondered if you heard it." He remarked that protection was useless, that the U. S. could not keep out British goods, that they would have to put a roof over the country in order...