Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mencken may now add to his list of people who huggermug, who boob, hick and wowse, those who go abroad sensing scents to censor. Certain persons walk about Broadway with their noses in the air, suiffing ozone that is impregnated with biology, straightaway expunge the biology, and go rejoicing on their righteous way. They discover for instance, that The Virgin Man has become The Captive of Sex, and proceed to straighten out the triumverate in a manner that leaves the principles chastened and shamed, and the producers in a state of elation at the success of their little drama...
...most sensational bits of prose published in 1926, one might well select the short story "Hatrack" (reviewed in TIME, April 19), and the novel Revelry (TIME, Nov. 29). "Hatrack," the tale of "Fanny Fewclothes," rebuffed churchgoer and sought-after prostitute of Farmington,* Mo., enabled Editor H. L. Mencken to guffaw at the New England Watch and Ward Society, to boost the circulation of the American Mercury, to have the "Hatrack" issue barred from the U. S. mails. Revelry, a flashy novel of the scandals of the Harding Administration, is bringing fortune if not fame to Writer Samuel Hopkins Adams...
Sirs: Recently a reader submitted his list of the ten greatest Americans, demanded to know which subscribed to TIME. May I suggest ten interesting Americans, not necessarily the most interesting, and inquire which subscribe ? list: H. L. Mencken James A. Reed William E. Borah Charles H. Mayo Nicholas Murray Butler John Erskine Graham McNamee* Will Rogers Alexander Woollcott David Belasco...
...Mayo and Dr. Butler are subscribers. Editor Mencken receives an exchange copy...
Enoch Arnold Bennett, British journalist: "In criticism of U. S. book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh...