Word: nathanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nathan's Book* contains less extravagant, less ponderous chastisements of current idiocies. He flings confetti that has the effect of a sneezing powder, at "The New Morality", ("Back in the boll-weevil belt, there are, of course, married men who sleep with the family Bible in their undershirts"), "The American Emotion," ("The observer of the emotional reactions of the American people is brought to the lamentable conclusion that the stimuli which produce those reactions most magnificently show a constantly increasing cheapness and standardization"), "The Motherland," "American Criticism," "The Muse in Our Midst." Unlike Mr. Mencken, Author Nathan seldom sweats...
Mencken & Nathan...
...Significance of the writings of Authors Mencken & Nathan has increased steadily since they formed their literary vaudeville team. Readers of the American Mercury, of which Mr. Mencken is editor, Mr. Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers...
...which he is notoriously fond. He is a polite man socially although certain vulgarisms which he permits himself in private have led to a contrary impression. His writing career began in his native town, on the Baltimore Sun, to the editorial staff of which he now belongs. With Mr. Nathan he rose to repute as one of the editors of the Smart Set, and to fame as the editor of the American Mercury which the two started in 1923. Two years ago he toured, in eccentric fashion, part...
...They DO huh? Look. Nathan F. Leopold Senior. Why do they put the Senior in? That's the tipoff. Everybody knows now who he is. Why tell everybody, tease 'em; and supress the dirt...