Word: nathanisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said Mr. Nathan, closing the taxi door, "which it will be," and added smugly, "We must try to be fair...
...said Mr. Nathan solemnly, "I actually believe they mean...
...Field mid cheers and bunting as Oldest Living Graduate. At all events, in their three corners of the country, Mr. Depew's three living classmates held their aged peace. They were: Dr. Virgil M. Dow, retired medico of New Haven, Conn.; James L. Rackleff, lawyer of Portland, Me.; and Nathan L. Hazen, agriculturalist of Philo, Ill., who, though he discontinued his studies at the end of his first year of Yale, still remembers...
That inimitable critic of schnitzels and life, George Jean Nathan, occasionally enters the territory where angels fear to tread. In his last group of clinical notes he disputes no less a person then a gentleman and writer, now too often slighted, one Quintus, Horatius Flaccus of Rome and the Sabine Hills. This Flaccus, whose poetry has gone into several editions, even being used as a text for stylists, once amiably asserted that there was truth in wine. Mr. Nathan objects: there is no truth in wine...
That there is truth in wine Horace offered in no dogmatic way. He meant merely to suggest that the concealing, congealing, civilized man became more honestly himself, more obviously himself when in his cups. And though Mr. Nathan may have had more psychological training above Cayuga's waters than did Horace above the Fountain of Bandusia, he knows little more of men. A liar is nearly always a liar. But he is only more obviously a liar when drunk. And when Mr. Nathan disputes the axiom of his elder he is missing this point. But then one cannot expect...