Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Mercury was founded in 1924 to give Editor Mencken scope for his vituperation of the U. S. scene. He and Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had become financially comfortable, not through Smart Set which they edited with more thought than thanks, but through two little aphrodisiacs, La Parisienne and Saucy Stories, founded for revenge and sold at fat profits. The revenge was upon society...
...Nathan it was who originally drew Mr. Mencken away from journalism into the naughty magazine game, but Mr. Mencken it was who, ill-satisfied with preciosity, found a publisher for a new magazine in which the emphasis on fiction was to be reduced, the sociological and intellectual emphases amplified. Mr. Mencken approached Alfred A. Knopf, a facile gentleman who at 32 had opened a whole new field for U. S. book publishers by importing the best European literature and selling it in de luxe print and jackets for fancy prices. Publisher Knopf was quick to see that any large group...
...type of magazine which take themselves more seriously, that green-backed child of H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, the "American Mercury", is easily, the best-seller. "Harpers", a periodical which has made great gains in many ways during the past twelve-months, now ranks ahead of the "Atlantic Monthly", one of Boston's best by-products. Other magazines which draw quarters from the pocket of undergraduates, are "Scribner's", the "Century", and the "Golden Book...
Homer Houston Woods 2L, of Indianola, Iowa, was named Case Editor. He graduated from Simpson College in 1925. Nathan Leonard Jacobs 2L., of Bayonne, N. J., received the appointment of Note Editor. Jacobs graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1925. Moses Samuel Huberman '25 and 2L., of Portland, Maine, was appointed Book Review Editor...
...behalf of none of these three boy criminals was it urged, nor against them was it charged, that they had been "over-educated," as in the case of notorious Nathan F. Leopold Jr.,* and Richard A. Loeb, who happened to be students at the University of Chicago when their mental disorders moved them to murder Bobby Franks...