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...first book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), made a splash whose ripples are still spreading. Veblen was surprised at its popularity, annoyed that it was taken as a satire on aristocracy. Such Veblenian phrases as "conspicuous waste" became famed. So did the Veblenian style, which H. L. Mencken compared to "a constant roll of subway expresses," which Veblen himself parodied in such passages...
...Radio pupils by "monotony and poor showmanship." Cried he: "People do not want to be educated. They want entertainment. . . . Our guilt lies in having been too big-hearted in our desire to help educators." By way of support. NBC's program director produced a testimonial from Henry L. Mencken: "The pedagogs now have all the time they can fill profitably-and more. Their programs are puerile and dull. There is no evidence that they would do any better if they had all day." Most notable witness of the week in behalf of more Education...
...church all over the State. Author Suckow wrote from childhood, but had more sense than to try to make a living at it. While teaching at the University of Denver she learned how to keep bees, owned and managed a profitable Iowa apiary for six years. H. L. Mencken bought her early stories for Smart Set, gave her a good sendoff. Grey-haired, robust, 42, she is married to a fellow lowan named Ferner Nuhn, shuttles back & forth between East & West but still writes about home...
Boston has maintained through the years the reputation of the purest city of its size in the Republic. Many years ago Mr. H. L. Mencken, then enjoying a prophet's repute, found his "American Mercury" suppressed because of an article which offended the tender nostrils of the Hub. A little later, Mr. Eugene O'Neill, the American dramatic laureate, found his "Strange Interlude" banned to the purlieus of Quincy because the Back Bay would have no dealings with incest. And within the memory of the current college generation of the Morals Squad of the peerless. Boston Constabulary found it necessary...
...stories. The fact is that he has found his metier and doesn't choose to turn again to aesthetic writing. Only last week he refused Burton Rascoe's suggestion that he reprint in book form his famous Raegan Stories that appeared in 1913 or thereabouts in the Mencken-Nathan Smart Set. He doesn't want those sophisticated tales cropping up now. If they were reprinted, his name would carry them into thousands of American homes, where it is a parental maxim that a Terhune book is fit for the children to read. Then the Smart Set vein would crop out?...