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...Mencken and George Jean Nathan, iconoclast editors of Smart Set, delight in insulting their fellow men. Each month they proclaim in Smart Set their candidacy for the Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United States and announce various platform planks, of which the following are typical...
...Mencken agrees, if elected, to deport the whole Roosevelt family. Mr. Nathan dissents on the ground that the act would be unconstitutional." " They agree that Major-General Wood should be provided for, but disagree as to the means. Mr. Mencken favors keeping the General in the Philippines; Mr. Nathan advocates getting him a job as an archbishop in Soviet Russia...
...current issue of Smart Set Mr. Mencken reviews A Man from Maine, biography (TIME, April 14) of Cyrus H. K. Curtis by Mr. Curtis' son-in-law, Edward W. Bok. After speaking of Mr. Curtis as "the Philadelphia Barabbas" and of Mr. Bok (whom he insists on calling Edwin W. Bok) as " a quite unusual Babbitt," Mr. Mencken concludes with this indictment: " A bad, bad book. An incredibly mushy, banal, tedious and preposterous book...
Thomas Nelson Page was Woodrow Wilson's ambassador to the Court of Savoy. Of Thomas Nelson Page : a Memoir of a Virginia Gentleman by Rosewell Page, Mr. Mencken writes: " Let the Scribners take the gold-mounted custard pie for printing the worst biography every heard...
Edward W. Bok: "Writing in The Nation, Henry Lewis Mencken, iconoclast, mentioned me, purposely perhaps, as Edwin...