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...education with a year at the University of Bologna. His uncle, Frederic Nirdlinger. a well-known critic and playwright, got him his first job of cub reporter and third-string drama critic for the New York Herald. Three years later, in 1908, Nathan was introduced to H. L. Mencken. Stanley had met Livingstone in what both men felt to be darkest America...
...they co-edited (Smart Set and the American Mercury) introduced or helped to foster such notables as James Joyce, Aldous Huxley. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Theodore Dreiser and Eugene O'Neill. They also became trademarks of the "lost generation" along with hot jazz, bobbed hair and the hip flask. Mencken lashed out at the "booboisie" with a bull whip; the debonair Nathan was content to use a swizzle stick. In the eyes of the proper-minded, the two iconoclasts were unholy terrors. A couplet of those days went...
...Such derivations are moot points. But H. L. Mencken in The American Language supports Reader Anderson's theory...
...graduate schools' standards have slipped, C. Crane Brinton '19, Professor of History, commented that "if anything, they've gone up." He added that many of Mills' criticisms were partly right, but that he neglected statistics. "What does he want, a faculty full of geniuses" He sounds like H. L. Mencken. He's a bellyacher," Brinton said...
Died. Harry Hervey, 50, explorer, author (The Damned Don't Cry, The Veiled, Fountain) and screen writer (Shanghai Express, Road to Singapore), who, at 16, sold his first story to H. L. Mencken's Smart Set, produced a popular novel every year between 1923 and 1933; of cancer; in Manhattan...