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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Said the New York World: "The country loses one of its ablest newspapermen . . . one of the few men of the city [Baltimore] who never fell under the spell of the methods for which H. L. Mencken stands. . . While the Evening Sun [Mr. Mencken's]was saying in effect that it is a pretty sordid world and all jobholders ought to be hung,* Mr. Adams clung to his old sentimental love of the human race.'' Said H. L. Mencken in the Evening Sun: "Of all the journalists I have known in this life, the late Jonh Haslup Adams...
...this book well above Bram Stoker's "Dracula" as a tale of a life hereafter. With the well-told description of Von Dronte's early life the author skillfully disarms the reader of his will to disbelieve, and, having gained his confidence and credulity, he adroitly weaves his weird spell...
...play is annoyingly cut up into a string of episodes darkening the theatre and breaking its spell whenever.the audience begins to succumb to what might have been effective historical drama. It was written by Maurine Watkins, a young woman who last year attracted attention by a sound piece of debunking called Chicago. She took her material for Revelry from the novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams and for local color she went to Washington, moseyed about the lobby halls, chatted with the politicians, pried, snooped, took notes. To see Miss Watkins, whose beauty is fresh and sweet as the first blush...
Could any man who has joined with Sir Harry Lauder in such a chorus shake off the spell sufficiently to speak ill of him ? Sir Harry's friends would doubtless deny the possiblility; but in Edinburgh last week at a meeting of the Town Council, Mr. Councilman Gilzean struck the table a blow with his doubled fist and shouted...
...escape the heat of a Washington summer, the President went to the Black Hills. Last week, however, to the Black Hills came a hot spell; showed temperatures higher even than in the East. While Washington thermometers read 88° and New York's 84°, those in Rapid City danced about 96°. Even the trout stopped biting, and, though the President made no complaint of the heat, he discarded his coat and sat shirt-sleeved on the State Lodge porch. From the heat waves rose rumors, unconfirmed, that the President might shorten his western visit, leave...