Word: nathanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Many crities become not only professionally fault-seeking but have certain prejudices favoring or disfavoring certain authors and actors. George Jean Nathan is one of those in whom I wouldn't put a great deal of faith...
Senator Robinson of Indiana, Republican, not wishing to be left out of the wordfest, said that Mr. Sinclair had also contributed to the campaign fund of Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith of New York, in 1920. In that campaign, Governor Smith met his only popular defeat at the hands of Nathan L. Miller, who was later an attorney for Sinclair-partner Harry M. Blackmer...
...Nathan Straus, philanthropist, Zionist, last half of Abraham & Straus (famed Brooklyn department store), became 80 years old, in Mamaroneck, N. Y. He gave another $100,000 for reconstruction work in Palestine (making a total of $1,500,000). His wife lit a candle on a monster birthday cake and kissed him. Letters of congratulation showered upon him from the clergy, from financiers, from almost all State governors, from the Cabinet, from President Coolidge, who remarked how well beloved is Nathan Straus and said: "Such a reward is beyond price." Mr. Straus repeated his motto: "Give while you live...
Strange Interlude. Culture climbers, scattered seafaring men, drama devotees, Germans, George Jean Nathan, common people eyed narrowly the first performance of the season's prodigy. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill's nine-acter was solemnized by the Theatre Guild. The play began at 5:15, ran until 7:30, took recess for hungry actor and audience, resumed at 9, discharged...
...wrote his first play and proceeded to George Pierce Baker's famed playwright's class at Harvard to achieve technique. In 1916 at the tiny Wharf Theatre in Provincetown, Mass., his first production came to life, a one-acter, Bound East for Cardiff. Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan, then editors of the rascally Smart Set, accepted three plays for publication. Critic Nathan, notorious, noisy, can always say, truthfully, he recognized the good wine of genius before the grape was ripe. He still ballyhoos O'Neill frantically...