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...other people were similarly affected by that earnest study of a dissatisfied newspaperman who abandoned his wife and wandered around until he got another man's wife, whose Negro servants laughed to see such sport. If so, here is solace. For with due respect to Critic H. L. ("Hatrack") Mencken and the allegedly significant Chicago school of fiction, young Mr. Hemingway has sat him down and written a not altogether respectful parody of Mr. Anderson's vein. You can just see all the gay young men of Paris laughing over it at those luncheons. One Scripps...
...related to Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken, editor of the American Mercury...
...first inquiry is whether the language used in 'Hatrack' is obscene, indecent, impure. . . . On this matter we are guided by the decision in Commonwealth v. Buckley 200 Mass., 346. . . . Viewing it from every phase, I find that no offense has been committed. . . . dismiss the complaint...
...days later, Editor Mencken was informed that the U. S. Post Office Department had barred from the mails not only the issue of the American Mercury containing "Hatrack," but all reprints in whatever form. At Farmington, Mo., home town of Hatrack and of the author of "Hatrack" (Herbert Asbury, a member of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune), Rev. Frank T. Jarnigan exulted: "This is one of the greatest moral victories Farmington has ever won." He intimated that prayers of thanksgiving would be said in his church (Methodist) and a congratulatory message sent to the Postmaster General...
...Hatrack," or "Fanny Fewclothes," is described as a prostitute who went to the "Northern Methodist Church" of Farmington repeatedly, but was so rebuffed by the whole congregation that she always returned to her ancient trade...