Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...said: "I have often imagined that I would be as perfect a husband as a woman could find." Otherwise, as his Chrestomathy proves, he has been consistent in his peeves and gripes through several decades. But Mencken seldom descended to personal brawls in print. Like many a man with a terrible pen, he preferred the assault on the group. Says he: "I have never found it difficult to be on good terms, personally, with my enemies. I always try to choose decent ones. When I encounter a mucker, I simply avoid...
...needed doing, was to cudgel Comstockery and hack at hypocrisy, and he did both with a zest that makes his pages effervesce 30 years after their subjects were topical. Mencken, whatever the college boys may have thought a quarter-century ago, was no great thinker; he was a man of stout prejudices, with a gift and vocabulary for iconoclastic expression even richer than Mark Twain's. In the word's true sense he was, like Thoreau, a radical. But he was also a political conservative, to the dismay of the assorted pinks and reds who once thrilled...
...man had a horse which ran away. When the neighbors came to express their sympathy the man said: 'Who knows what is good luck and what is bad luck...
...days later his horse returned, bringing a herd of wild horses back with him. The neighbors came to congratulate him, and the wise man said: 'Who knows what is bad luck or good luck...
...days later his son, seeing so many horses, took to riding and broke his leg; the neighbors came again to offer their condolences, but the man replied: 'Who knows what is good luck or bad luck...