Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MONKS ARE MONKS-George Jean Nathan-Knopf ($2.50). Author Nathan's latest book is no novel. In it a critic, a poet, a playwright, a fictioneer and "two geniuses" [Mencken & Nathan in false whiskers] successfully repulse the advances of one Lorinda Hope who "was not a bad young woman; it was just that she had an apartment of her own." The story is completely overshadowed by their maneuvers. Their talk embraces: incompetency of U. S. criticism, monogamy v. polygamy, decline of detective stories, postures of college radicals, difficulty of censoring silent cinema, cosmopolitan U. S. interior decoration, Manhattan...
...French answer to Britain and Germany has been voiced by alert Jean Tillier, assistant director of the French Line in the U. S. and Canada: "We are going to build a super-fast ship. I won't tell her speed, but she will be very much larger and faster than anything afloat today. The plans are now being completed. The date for the laying of her keel has not been set, but we know about all the other ships and we are certain that ours will be both the largest and the fastest...
Seeking Divorce. Pauline Parker Assolant, onetime U. S. chorus girl, from Jean Assolant, trans-Atlantic flyer; in Paris...
...only see through distant men's brains but pulverize them as well. Hospitably, Picrolas offers Dograr a share in his ray-murders. Charmed, Dograr accepts. They aim the ray. Soon the city awakes to find Harry Hansen, William Soskin, Heywood Broun, Henry Seidl Canby, Asa Huddleberry and George Jean Nathan all dead. When the old man's hospitality becomes too exacting, Dograr leaves, preferring to have six Weber & Heilbroner shirts "in the Manhattan manner" at $4.40 each (advt.), and an Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar...
Youth, personified by George M. Lott Jr., whom the U. S. substituted the week of the matches for seasoned Francis T. Hunter, was inadequate before Jean Borotra, who leaped about...