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...private life, homely Henry Louis Mencken was never an ogreish misanthrope. It did not take marriage with Sara Powell Haardt, two and one-half years ago, to mellow him. At 52 Editor Mencken is little changed-stocky, slovenly dressed, wearing the best cravats that 50? can buy, still fond of draught beer and Baltimore seafood. He enjoys playing the piano with the loud pedal pushed down, singing bass in his cups, playing the fiddle Saturday nights in a parlor orchestra. But he keeps more regular hours now, leaves Baltimore less often. He reads The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn once...
...care much for the Romantic poetry, but I do find great passages in Keats," the eminent American-born poet and critic state. Mr. Eliot, who combines the New Humanism with a regard for the importance of authoritative religion in his outlook, although he is very fond of the extreme modernists such as Joyee, said that he was sympathetic to only a few English poems of the Romantic Movement. Be prefers the short ones, and a few pieces of Wordsworth. Keats, he showed, was attaining a higher criterion for poetical values. Be indicated passages in Keat's letters, which more than...
...Fleet, stalwart Admiral Seizo Kobayashi, 56, will probably be on the bridge of his flagship Mutsu when next summer she leads nine other battleships, three aircraft carriers, eight heavy cruisers, 79 destroyers and 67 submarines to their rendezvous just north of the Equator. A trim, polite seadog who is fond of bridge, Admiral Kobayashi is well known in Washington where he once served as naval attaché at the Japanese Embassy...
...Akron could see in the war was the possibility that it might put a stop to the bigger & bigger concessions that important buyers have been demanding-and getting-for the past few months. From now on, tiremen hoped, the list price would be the actual selling price, not a fond wish. In Chicago both Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Montgomery Ward & Co. promptly cut 5% under Firestone's new prices...
...seemed to divide one's time between lying in bed in a cheap hotel, counting squashed insects on the ceiling, and sitting on park benches, hungry. This U. S. appeared to have two bright spots, however, in the persons of an actor and actress who were quite fond of each other and of him. They were very considerate people. When the actress took him to sing and play the piano for his supper at George S. Kaufman's, she made sure that Mr. Kaufman also paid the cab fare...