Word: hatracks
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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...edited by one Francis Page, advertised stimulating material by Aubrey Beardsley, Catulle Mendès and Casanova himself ("hitherto obtainable only in editions costing from $50 to $500"). It republished My First Thirty Years by Gertrude Beasley, with assurance that these charming revelations had been admired by H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and suppressed both here and abroad. Two Worlds, braving the mails, offered thitherto unpublished work by Boccaccio; some confessions by Poet Arthur Symonds; a new unnamed work by famed and juicy James Joyce, author of Ulysses; a "dark surmise" concerning Philosopher Nietzsche and his sister--and an unknown story...
...lawyer against repressive measures. He is now chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union and has figured in many important cases recently. Last spring he came to Boston to defend Mr. H. L. Mencken during his trial here in connection with the publishing of the story "Hatrack" in the American Mercury magazine. The appearance of Mr. Hays will open the Liberal Club's speakers program for the year on which are the names of several noted men whose dates will be announced definitely later...
...other people were similarly affected by that earnest study of a dissatisfied newspaperman who abandoned his wife and wandered around until he got another man's wife, whose Negro servants laughed to see such sport. If so, here is solace. For with due respect to Critic H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and the allegedly significant Chicago school of fiction, young Mr. Hemingway has sat him down and written a not altogether respectful parody of Mr. Anderson's vein. You can just see all the gay young men of Paris laughing over it at those luncheons. One Scripps...
...related to Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken, editor of the American Mercury...
...Hatrack," or "Fanny Fewclothes," is described as a prostitute who went to the "Northern Methodist Church" of Farmington repeatedly, but was so rebuffed by the whole congregation that she always returned to her ancient trade...