Word: nathans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fond of beer, is 50, a bachelor. A native of Baltimore, he still lives there, edits The American Mercury when he comes (at least once a month) to Manhattan. He worked as reporter on various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter I have ever met. And he is the fairest...
...errand boy. On his way to work he carried his shoes in his hand till he came to the city, to keep them from getting dusty. By the time the Civil War came, Wanamaker had saved enough money to go into business with his brother-in-law, Nathan Brown. The new firm advertised itself in conspicuous ways: by posters, by balloons, by tally-hos, by rhymed jingles in the newspapers...
...Nathan Asch-Payson & Clarke...
...Author Nathan Asch, 28, was born in Poland, came to the U. S. when he was 13, went to school, college, worked in Wall St., became an author at 23. Other books: The Office, Love in Chartres...
Frankfurter and Greene both attended the Harvard Law School, Frankfurter receiving the degree of LL.B. in 1906 and Greene in 1925. Greene is now with the firm of Cook. Nathan, and Lehman of New York City...