Word: arimathea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only to reinforce Mencken's native temper. At the Vatican he inserted himself among the pilgrims and impudently kissed the apostolic ring of Pius X. Jerusalem he deplored for its "crude pottery of the thunder-mug species." The Holy Sepulcher he found obviously "bogus ... for unless Joseph of Arimathea was a reincarnation of Samson no one could imagine him rolling a stone large enough to close it." Mencken was full of sympathy for the British soldier who "spoke in favorable terms of the destruction of [Jerusalem] by the Romans in the year 70 A.D. . . . A man of speculative mind...