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Didn’t expect to come across a positive note to the Weimar years!

“ When on a trip to Berlin in January 1922 [Cowley] discovered that the hyperinflation of the German mark meant, among other pleasant things for holders of American currency, that five hundred copies of a small magazine could be printed for a mere twenty dollars…”

“…he wrote a sharply critical letter about [the essay] to Matthew Josephson, not knowing that he had written the piece under a pseudonym. A correspondence of escalating antipathy followed, culminating in a final letter from Josephson typed Dadaistically on Italian toilet paper.”

“Maybe you’re not fashion-forward,” Tennan suggested. “I normally am,” Lucas said, slightly annoyed by the suggestion that he wasn’t. “But you know, I run to Italian wool and British leather.” “Those were good, back when Esquire magazine mattered,” Tennan said. “Still are, for older guys...

A difference of thirty minutes in a schedule was an unconsidered trifle to many of them [foreign visitors].Our official badge was so flamboyant that we shrank from wearing it, but the hemisphere of brass with four inches of tricolor ribbon back of it soon abundantly justified itself. It could be seen afar off, and a description of it to a policeman often resulted in the prompt capture and return of straying statesmen

Uncle Joe Cannon, who keeps alive the torch of American humor...Ridiculing the idea that everything in the White House must stay there forever, he said, “When Adams was President, the family washing was hung to dry in the East Room.” Then, raising his hands to heaven, he exclaimed, “My God! Where are those clothespins?”