Word: messer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Bertram Lichenstein, Oscar Mendel Lurie, Benjamin Maurice Mark, Branford Price Millar, Erling Charles Olsen, Russell George Olsen, Roy Messer Pearson, Jr., Joseph Henry Phillips, Irving Murray Pinansky, Richard McMahon Powell, David Rome, William Shapiro, Samuel Tredwell Skidmore, Jr., Stanley Stellar, Shigeto Tsuru, Sherwood Larned Washburn, John Burke Wilkinson, Richard Edward Wolf...
...delicacy of the issue is Mr. Mencken's thin contribution. By a series of magnificent obiter dicta he manages to make reviews of works by Messer Herbert Agar and Will Durant pinch-hit for his missing editorials. The first of these reveals in a few well-chosen words the editor's reaction to N. R. A. and all that; the second says a few words on the Slav Utopia (Mencken's phrase for Red Russia) which should be prescribed reading to every member of the Harvard Socialist-Liberal-Club-Students'-League Knights-of-the-White-Kamelia organization. Further than this...
...Stories Without Women" has the hall marks of adolescence strongly upon it. The fragility of phrase and the delicate tracing that is so large a part of "Messer Marco Polo" is not to be found here. In their place is only a rather obvious striving after effect. Where Byrne usually relies upon the grace of his style he now turns to situations for his strength. And the result is not impressive...