Quote of the day
A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
Maxwell Bodenheim
Born: May 26, 1892
Died: February 6, 1954 (aged 61)
Bio: Maxwell Bodenheim was an American poet and novelist. A literary figure in Chicago, he later went to New York where he became known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians. His writing brought him international notoriety during the Jazz Age of the 1920s.
Known for:
- My life and loves in Greenwich Village (1954)
- Introducing irony (1922)
- Cutie: A Warm Mamma (1924)







