Word: nathans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Died. Nathan Bay Scott, 81, Republican Senator from West Virginia (1899-1911), President until a year ago of the Continental Trust Co., Washington, D. C., since 1888 West Virginian representative on the Republican National Committee, of heart disease, at Washington...
Those two American redoubtables, H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, who several years ago rescued the Smart Set from the devastating popularity it suffered as an all fiction magazine, have recently thrown it back to the masses who feed on fiction with this parting sting: "The Smart Set becomes an all-fiction magazine as it was when America's most popular monthly...
...bright green covers?an excellent contrast with the orange coat of its English namesake, The London Mercury?Alfred A. Knopf presented for the first time The American Mercury with H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Messrs. Mencken and Nathan have produced a different product, but of a sort allied to their last magazine The Smart...
Messrs. Mencken and Nathan were co-editors of The Smart Set until they began their new undertaking. Presumably The Smart Set is the "popular magazine" referred to above. In its January number The Smart Set has abandoned the Mencken-Nathan type of pyrotechnics and returned to pure fiction. The announcement of this fact is carried on the cover in words that might well be those of one of its former editors?that is, if the latter part of the announcement were in italics: WITH THIS ISSUE THE SMART SET BECOMES AN ALL-FICTION MAGAZINE AS IT WAS WHEN AMERICA...
...Nathan Percles Jr. '04. President of the Harvard Club of Milwaukee in a communication to the CRIMSON yesterday, announced that the Club would hold a Christmas luncheon on December 26th at the University Club of Milwaukee...