Word: iconoclasm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Having waved aside the prospect of immortality, Writer Mencken laid about him with such relish that it finally settled into a kind of smugness. His iconoclasm became a trademark and an act; the Paris-green-covered American Mercury that he edited became an undergraduate bible for the bright boys of the '20s and early '30s. He scorned marriage ("Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too"). But he shook the faith of many an admirer when he married at 50 and said: "I have often imagined that...
High Prices. The merchandiser who promulgated this piece of business iconoclasm is Eversharp President Martin L. Straus II, 50, who works as smoothly as a ball bearing in his new empire. (His office is in his apartment in Manhattan's swank St. Regis Hotel.) Things were not always thus. In 1929, as head of Chicago's Hartman Furniture & Carpet Co., he saw it go broke in the depression, learned that low prices alone were not enough to make people buy. In 1939 he teamed up with Ralph A. Bard (later Under Secretary of the Navy...
...been generally supposed, and even publicly stated, that the only purpose behind the boxes which have run over my signature is a kind of aimless invective, a form of egocentric iconoclasm. Within these limits, the adjectives applied have attained the bulk of a thesaurus...
...Democrat in the Legis lature, and was elected mayor of Laramie by nine votes. Later he taught law at Yale, did a few jobs for AAA and SEC on the side. He also wrote two books - Symbols of Government (1935), Folklore of Caitalism (1937) - which combined a rigorous political iconoclasm with a good deal of intellectual clowning. One of their chief targets was the Sherman Act, which he called a "preaching device." Trusts, said he, are a social necessity, like houses of prostitution ; the Sherman Act was merely intended to express society's disapproval...