Word: nathan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MONKS ARE MONKS-George Jean Nathan-Knopf ($2.50). Author Nathan's latest book is no novel. In it a critic, a poet, a playwright, a fictioneer and "two geniuses" [Mencken & Nathan in false whiskers] successfully repulse the advances of one Lorinda Hope who "was not a bad young woman; it was just that she had an apartment of her own." The story is completely overshadowed by their maneuvers. Their talk embraces: incompetency of U. S. criticism, monogamy v. polygamy, decline of detective stories, postures of college radicals, difficulty of censoring silent cinema, cosmopolitan U. S. interior decoration, Manhattan...
...through distant men's brains but pulverize them as well. Hospitably, Picrolas offers Dograr a share in his ray-murders. Charmed, Dograr accepts. They aim the ray. Soon the city awakes to find Harry Hansen, William Soskin, Heywood Broun, Henry Seidl Canby, Asa Huddleberry and George Jean Nathan all dead. When the old man's hospitality becomes too exacting, Dograr leaves, preferring to have six Weber & Heilbroner shirts "in the Manhattan manner" at $4.40 each (advt.), and an Oriental dancer named Sweet Adeline. At the end Charles is seen walking down Fifth Avenue smoking a cigar (brand...
...Died. Nathan W. Hendryx, 49, cage-maker of New Haven, Conn. (Hendryx bird homes) ; near Stony Creek, Conn.; by drowning off his yacht...
...full of forceful peace and whose finger tips now and again tap an archbishop's cross dangling from a black cord about his shoulders. When it was his turn to speak, not a delegate missed a syllable of his words. Everybody knew and wanted to hear the Very Rev. Nathan Soderblom, Archbishop of Sweden...
...Lazarus Straus, who had come to the U. S. as a refugee after the German revolution of 1848, leased part of Macy's basement and opened a crockery store. Captain Macy died in 1877, and until 1888 junior partners carried on the business. In 1888 control passed to Nathan and Isidor Straus, sons of Lazarus Straus, and in 1902 Macy's moved to its present Herald Square location. Mr. and Mrs. Isidor Straus went down with the Titanic (1912). Their sons, Jesse L, Percy S., and Herbert N., purchased the Nathan Straus interest and are now in sole control...