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...from a dampened stone on which a design, drawn with greasy crayon, retains a coating of printer's ink which fails to stick to the" wet stone. Lithographs have been made since the beginning of the 19th Century, but have become popular with U.S. artists only since the 1920s. Today they are probably the most popular form of print, and their recent development has been almost exclusively a U.S. phenomenon...
After Cadet Helfrich became an officer, the spirit of prophecy and offense both waxed within him. In the early 1920s, when he was teaching other young sprouts at Den Helder, his favorite lecture was on the coming war between the U.S. and Japan. "When?" his students would ask him, and he would boom: "In this generation." Then he would stride to a blackboard map and chalk three Xs- on Pearl Harbor, the Panama Canal, San Francisco. "There," he would say, "the attacks will fall...
Early in the 1920s Philip Guedalla charged into the battle of the books, shouting: "Historians' English is not a style; it is an industrial disease." In its place he developed a lively and somewhat overarch Guedalla English which soon helped to make biographies almost as popular reading as novels. It also boosted the sales of his books (as one critic observed with Guedallan acidity) "within measuring distance of the giddy heights attained by Mr. Edgar Wallace and Miss Elinor Glynn." It was a style nicely adapted to describing the molting eagles of Napoleon I (The Hundred Days...
...author of Prejudices, Notes on Democracy, In Defense of Women, The American Language, etc., is aware that he has entered what he calls his "autumnal-years." He is not the riproaring Mencken of the 1920s, when his name was on the lips of every undergraduate literatus, when newspapermen were supposed to carry copies of the Mercury in their hip pockets along with their liquor flasks, and when he himself was scorching Fundamentalists at the Scopes trial, sitting up all night with characters like Rudolph Valentino, and lalloping around Manhattan with Ernest Boyd and Jim Huneker...
...monumental dictionary of quotations running to a million words. He is also working on more autobiography, including a history of his own ideas. Actually they have not changed very much; but the things about which he had ideas have changed. The happily and giddily clowning U.S. of the 1920s was Mencken's raw meat. He could not believe in the Depression, pointing derisively to jampacked cinema houses and highways full of colliding cars, until -so one story goes-friends showed him a bread line; then he was visibly moved. What would the Mencken who made such scathing...