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...delight of Dr. Fitch.--the college youths read "frothy stories". One might comment that Dr. Fitch's adjective was chosen with admirable restraint. And "they are strong on college games, gassip and athletics." This is nothing but pure flattery. It was intended, no doubt to salve the sting of the arrows. "They regard their professors with a mild and benevolent indifference." This at any rate goes too far. There is certainly nothing the college man would rather do; but, except with a few exceedingly superior persons, this ambition has been but lamely realized. It is much too difficult to acquire...
...LADY-Mary Nash takes the sting out of old-fashioned melodrama as the English show-girl who loved too respectably...
...youth is "the time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges us with moral callousness in our attitude towards prohibition, and what not no one is surprised. When, relenting somewhat, he hastens to add that Americans "are just beginning", he takes some of the sting from his caustic comments...
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...
...keep a fire in the editorial office, they were forced at times to pander to the tastes of readers who demanded undisturbing fiction, in their newest venture with a publisher like Knopf behind them they need serve neither fiction nor soothing copy of any kind, but may scratch and sting to their heart's content...