Word: wanger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...series of satiric poems signed by one J. L. Wetcheek, "famed" U. S. poet, translated into German by Lion (Power) Feuchtwanger. Soon, however, someone discovered that Wetcheek was unknown to U. S. Kultur, that wet-cheek, moreover, was a literal translation of Feuchtwanger. Hoaxes will out. Said Author Feucht wanger, dehoaxed: "If these poems, to some extent, are an attempt to put Babbitt into lyrics, I certainly do not claim to be representative of America, a country I do not know. I wanted to hit at the European bourgeois, who [is becoming] . . . more 'American' than most inhabitants of the United...
...check, as did his chief officials. This made Paramount-Famous-Lasky's top payroll read for the year, according to reports from their Manhattan office: Adolph Zukor, president, $150,000; Jesse L. Lasky, vice president, $150,000; Sidney R. Kent, general manager, $75,000; Walter Wanger, general production manager, $75,000; E. J. Ludvigh, treasurer...