The
Smart Set, a Magazine of Cleverness ran from 1900 to 1924, implicitly catering to a leisure-class readership and tending to speak to their tastes: Witticisms abound--about divorce, fashion, and fortunes acquired or lost.
Emma Wolf's Short Stories in The Smart Set
BRYAN
SMART set the early pace after racing in Doncaster last night at the concluding session of the St Leger Festival Sale when spending 32,000gns on a son of Bertolini, sire of his smart sprinter Moorhouse Lad.
Horse Racing: Smart moves to secure Bertolini colt for 32,000gns; BLOODSTOCK DESK
SCHOOL SCOPE You're likely to make new friends at school this year, and they'll probably be part of the
smart set. Group study sessions and trying to keep up with the smarties can only enhance your GPA, so you go!
Star signs
After lames, the "'social' intent" of modernist fiction becomes to reconfigure traditional class differences between the "high" and the "low" into a distinction between "the intelligent" or "
smart set" (to adopt the name of an American magazine later edited by H.
McGurl, Mark. The Novel Art: Elevations of American Fiction after Henry James
Katey is expected to join the
smart set of American teenagers who are the Millers' neighbors at the exclusive Oceans Hotel.
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
Mencken consolidated his talents as critic and tastemaker and put them on a national stage when he migrated from newspapers to magazines, first The
Smart Set and later The American Mercury.
Scourage of the booboisie: weighing H.L. Mencken's legacy. (Culture and Reviews)
The most successful of the recent wave of new works surveyed in David Patrick Stearns's richly detailed cover story "The
Smart Set" (page 18), Floyd Colli ns conveys qualities so different from its musical predecessor-tight focus, gravity of tone, psychological complexity, operatic intensity-that the two works scarcely seem to belong to the same genre.
Editor's note
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smart set" technology.
BELLSOUTH CUSTOMERS BENEFIT FROM "SMART TECHNOLOGY" MILESTONE
Nathan and Mencken were notable contributors to and eventually editors of the
Smart Set, a magazine of the arts whose writers aimed to counter the prevailing conservatism of American cultural life.
Improvised Europeans: American Literary Expatriates and the Siege of London
Amongst the
smart set, and in the belles lettres that moulded their minds and reflected their self-image, morality itself acquired an aesthetic slant, becoming more subjective, a matter of refined taste.
The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth Century Britain
Henry Louis Mencken wrote 30 books and contributed to 20 others; with George Jean Nathan, he edited the monthly
Smart Set from 1914 to 1923; and, in 1924, he helped establish the American Mercury, which he managed until 1933.
Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir
From 1914 to 1923 he coedited (with George Jean Nathan) The
Smart Set, then the magazine most influential in the growth of American literature.
Mencken, H.L
Yardley's necessary cutting obscures how much of this sort of thing may have enlivened Mencken's reviews as they appeared in
Smart Set, The American Mercury, the Sunpapers and elsewhere.
My Life as an Author and Editor
The first issue of The
Smart Set, a literary monthly, was published by William D'Alton Mann.
1900: Publishing; arts and music; popular entertainment; architecture; theatre
There was even a magazine called
Smart Set, started by "rascally old" Colonel William D'Alton Mann, "flush from picking the pockets of millionaires by means of his unscrupulous New York tattle sheet Town Topics."
The Smart Magazines: 50 Years of Literary Revelry and High Jinks at Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Life, Esquire and the Smart Set