Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...those who consider him possessed of great beauty of style, others who see in his sentences grotesque and jumbled collections of words, those who find a sort of visionary health in his philosophy, others who pronounce his ideas those of a decided psychopath. Cham pioned by H. L. Mencken, by The Dial, by even so conservative a critic as Henry Canby, he is a man who must be reckoned with. No one, I believe, questions his genuine sincerity, and there are many who believe that time will find him the great prose genius...
...knows, he retains his highest admiration for himself. However, he is not averse to discussing the contacts of his fellow Olympians with himself. In this collection he describes in a manner highly anecdotal some 32 persons varying from Charles S. Chaplin and Sarah Bernhardt to Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, James Larkin, Emma Goldman, Lord Curzon. Otto Kahn and Leon Trotzky he compares as "two great captains." His rule, he tells us, has been to take people he has "known intimately and like'd if not loved." Among his exceptions to this rule are Roosevelt, Wilson, Harding, whom he neither...
Those two American redoubtables, H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, who several years ago rescued the Smart Set from the devastating popularity it suffered as an all fiction magazine, have recently thrown it back to the masses who feed on fiction with this parting sting: "The Smart Set becomes an all-fiction magazine as it was when America's most popular monthly...
...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...
...Messrs. Mencken and Nathan were co-editors of The Smart Set until they began their new undertaking. Presumably The Smart Set is the "popular magazine" referred to above. In its January number The Smart Set has abandoned the Mencken-Nathan type of pyrotechnics and returned to pure fiction. The announcement of this fact is carried on the cover in words that might well be those of one of its former editors?that is, if the latter part of the announcement were in italics: WITH THIS ISSUE THE SMART SET BECOMES AN ALL-FICTION MAGAZINE AS IT WAS WHEN AMERICA...