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...decided him to emigrate to the U. S. Landed there at 14 without knowing a word of English, he went to the hardest school of all: dug ditches, loaded freight, welded metals, wove textiles, swept floors, waited on tables. He learned to read English, to write. Editor Henry Louis Mencken encouraged him. Adamic wrote a history of U. S. labor troubles (Dynamite), a book about his U. S. experiences (Laughing in the Jungle). Now 34, with his last book chosen by the Book-of-the-Month Club, Louis Adamic is established as a U. S. writer...
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...late Sime Silverman, founder-publisher of Variety, helped popularize such technical theatre talk as "wow," "panic," and "flop" but it never got far from Broadway. H. L. Mencken coined expressions like "Bible Belt," "booboisie," "Yahwah," which became part of the language of his imitative admirers but not slang. Cartoonist T. A. Dorgan ("Tad") put a little dog in his pictures who barked "balogna"; the term was not, like some of Tad's, his own. "Blessed event," "phttf and "middle-aisle" by Winchell are too conscious to be slang; "whoopee," old when he first used it, is already obsolete. "Bugs...
Like Editor Henry Louis Mencken who announced his retirement from the American Mercury last October, Ed Howe was perpetually disgruntled. Born in Treaty, Ind., educated in public schools until he went into a print shop at 12, he began the expression of his general dissatisfaction in 1877 when he founded the Atchison Globe. After a day's work in the Globe office, starting at 7 o'clock in the morning and ending at 4 o'clock when the paper was "put to bed," Editor Howe spent his evenings writing a novel which he called The Story...
...Arbiter but his more rapscallion son, thinks Author Rascoe, was the author of the famed Satyricon, earliest picaresque novel. The neglected Lucian, great debunker of his day (2nd Century), he calls "the most modern of all writers of antiquity," compares him favorably with Anatole France, Bernard Shaw, H. L. Mencken. Though D. H. Lawrence "gives him the pip" in practical matters, on the whole he approves of him, allows him to stand with such fire-bringers as Aretino, Apideius, Theodore Dreiser, James Branch Cabell...