Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such formal ideas about who is entitled to do what. In the South minor absurdities are soon laughed, or ejaculated, out of existence. And then, Editor Marshall Ballard of the oldest afternoon paper* in the South is no common editor. He is an intellectual roughneck, of the H. L. Mencken type but with interests more cheerful than Baptist-baiting and with membership in no mutual-admiration societies. His cerebral inheritance is from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background is suggested by a monster...
...savored strongly of the pundit, even after he dropped the P. from his signature and wrote more as a journalist than as a professor at the University of Illinois. And this was a ponderous pundit, not an explosive, like "the diabolical little boy with a bean-shooter," H. L. Mencken. But the ponderousness was the weight of great sincerity; in controversy it would give place to trenchant power as when a big-boned man rolls up his sleeves to fight. His subtlety and strength were in expressing the homelier virtues and pleasures of mankind. He had a feeling for tools...
...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 O'Neil...
...widely heraided problem of American decadence has been approached from many angles. Strait-laced attacks from reformers, slouching policies advocated by followers of the laissez-faire theory, and vitriolic indictments in the Mencken manner have all played a part in diagnosng the national malady. In the current "Independent", Mrs. Miller, chairman of the literary division of the Federation of Women's Clubs, makes a more original contribution to the discussion...
Adopting the method usually reserved for academic theses in the Department of English, she attempts to find in modern literature an accurate diagnosis of present ills. Such a study first reveals son, Eugena O'Neil, and H. L. Mencken When recovered from these flery charges of hypocrisy, the investigator plunges into a drab slough of respectability in which six-cylindered sedans protect bourgeosie from the necessity of thought. In this literary domain, preempted by Sinclair Lewis, murky morals and stupid minds promenade in clean linen...