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The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings (Life Magazine, 1922)
1922, Life Magazine, Writing

The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings
(Life Magazine, 1922)

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This is a short, pithy review of E.E. Cummings’ (1894 – 1962) novel, The Enormous Room I1922), which was based upon his experience as an American volunteer ambulance driver and his subsequent incarceration in a French jail for having admitted to pacifist sympathies. The reviewer believed that the book provided:

the last word in realistically detailed horrors.


F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have remarked:


Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives – The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings.

'Men in War'' by Andreas Latzko (Current Opinion, 1918)
1918, Current Opinion Magazine, Writing

‘Men in War” by Andreas Latzko
(Current Opinion, 1918)

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In the bad-old days of World War I, author Andreas Latzko (1876 – 1943) served as a line officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army. While at the front he was affected by the horrors of combat until he found that he had seen enough and chose to desert. Even before the war had ended he managed to create an anti-war novel and get it to press before the Armistice. Digitized here is the 1918 review of his book, Men In War

Disillusionment and an almost morbid sympathy with mental and physical suffering are outstanding features of the book.

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Israel Zangwill and the Great War (The North American Review, 1916)
1916, The North American Review, Writing

Israel Zangwill and the Great War
(The North American Review, 1916)

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Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was a member of the Jewish literary society in Britain; he was an prominent lecturer, journalist, novelist and playwright. Today, however, he is mostly remembered for his efforts on behalf of the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish homeland. The following is a luke-warm book review from 1916 covering his collection of essays about World War I, The War for the Worldstyle=border:none.

The Victory Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue (Literary Digest, 1919)
1919, Civil War History, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

The Victory Parade Down Pennsylvania Avenue
(Literary Digest, 1919)

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Here is a reminiscence of the grand parade following the close of America’s bloody Civil War. It took two days; with the Army of the Potomac marching on the first day followed by General Sherman’s Army of the West on the next. The Grand Review was the brain-child of Secretary of War, Edwin M. Stanton and was attended by (so it was believed) over one hundred thousand people from the victorious Northern states.


From Amazon: Marching Home: Union Veterans and Their Unending Civil Warstyle=border:none

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Golf Goes Yankee (Vanity Fair Magazine, 1922)
1922, Golf History, Recent Articles, Vanity Fair Magazine

Golf Goes Yankee
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1922)

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The attached golf article first appeared in a 1922 Vanity Fair titled The Royal and Ancient Game. Penned by golf legend Charles Chick Evans, Jr. (1890 – 1979) it traces the birth of the game and its migration across the sea where the game was heartily welcomed:

Golf seemed a gift from an high. Across the water it came and our best people took it up. They had discovered it in their travels abroad. It is true that poor people played it in Britain, but it seemed very sure that they would not do so in America…


Click here to read about the American cars of 1922.

Victorian Fashion vs Flapper Fashion
1929, Fashion, Recent Articles, The Literary Digest

Turning Back The Fashion Revolution
(Literary Digest, 1929)

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Periodically we run across articles on this subject and it makes us sit up and recognize that this must have been a constant fear for numerous women (and fashion journalists) during the Twenties. Each article centers on a widespread belief that the Deep State behind the fashion industry had plans afoot to force women back into long skirts and corsets and that women would not be allowed any say in the matter.


Click here to read a similar article and here to read our other article on the subject.

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Wilbur Wright, R.I.P. (Collier's, 1912)
1912, Aviation History, Collier's Magazine, Recent Articles

Wilbur Wright, R.I.P.
(Collier’s, 1912)

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The Collier’s Magazine obituary for Wilbur Wright (1867 – 1912) was written by the aviator and journalist Henry Woodhouse (born Mario Terenzio Casalengo, 1884 – 1970).


The Brothers Wright gave flying instructions to a young boy who would later become one of the first U.S. Air Force generals – you can read about him here…


Click here to read about a much admired American aviator who was attracted to the fascist way of thinking…

The Jokes of Abraham Lincoln (Pageant Magazine, 1954)
1954, Abraham Lincoln, Pageant Magazine, Recent Articles

The Jokes of Abraham Lincoln
(Pageant Magazine, 1954)

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Lincoln could use humor as an explosive weapon as well as employing it as a constructive force… For Abraham Lincoln never told a story except with a purpose. He himself pointed this out often. His anecdotes were the precision tools of a highly skilled and intelligent wit… ‘I laugh because I must not cry: That’s all, that’s all.’


Click here to read another article about Lincoln’s use of humor and story-telling.


Click here to read the back-story concerning the Star-Spangled Banner…

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Winston Churchill in 1912 | Winston Churchill in His Thirties
1912, Recent Articles, The Saturday Evening Post, Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill: Up-and-Comer
(Saturday Evening Post, 1912)

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He is only thirty-eight now and he is a member of the English Ministry… he has been a wonder of the Empire since he was twenty-five. The only American he can be compared to is [Teddy] Roosevelt; and that comparison is not especially apt, because Churchill writes far better than Roosevelt does, talks far better, and at thirty-eight has gone farther than Roosevelt had when he reached that age… Churchill will undoubtedly be a prime minister of England one of these days.

HG Wells on Winston Churchill 1940 | PM Winston Churchill by HG Wells 1940
1940, Collier's Magazine, Winston Churchill

H.G. Wells on Winston Churchill
(Collier’s Magazine, 1940)

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H.G. Wells and Winston Churchill first met in 1901. Churchill was a deep admirer of Well’s fiction, and he eagerly pursued a friendship. The two enjoyed a spirited exchange of letters that went on for decades – although it seemed to have taken a hit in the Twenties when the two disagreed on the nascent USSR – but their friendship was not seriously shaken. In this 1940 article, Wells stepped up to tell American readers how fortunate Britons are to have such a man of discernment standing at the helm:

I will confess I have never felt so disposed to stand by a man through thick and thin as I do now in regard to him. And I think that, in writing that, I write for a very great number of my fellow countrymen who have hitherto felt frustrated and fragmentary amidst the rush of events.

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The W.W. I Plays of the Post-War Years (Stage Magazine, 1933)
1933, Stage Magazine, Writing

The W.W. I Plays of the Post-War Years
(Stage Magazine, 1933)

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A look at What Price Glory? and Journey’s End and the new spirit that created these dramas.

When R.C. Sheriff, nearly ten years after the Armistice, sat down to write an easy play for the amateurs of his boat club, he seems to have had no fixed notion as to what a play ought to be. The script of Journey’s End shows a complete absence of strain…


Click here to read an additional article concerning Journeys End.

reaction to introduction of 1st television broadcast
1937, Early Television, Recent Articles, The Delineator Magazine

Seeing the ”Wonder Machine” for the First Time…
(Delineator Magazine, 1937)

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This is one of the most enjoyable early television articles: an eye-witness account of one the first T.V. broadcasts from the R.C.A. Building in New York City during the November of 1936. The viewing was set up strictly for members of the American press corps and the excitement of this one journalist clearly could not be contained:

In the semi-darkness we sat in tense silence waiting to see the premiere demonstration of television… Television! What would it be like?

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