Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...knew that he was guilty. He had broken an edict relating to decency. No escape was possible. Already burly bluecoats were nudging through the crowd; while the onlookers hooted, mooed, clapped and guffawed, they led him off to jail. For this coin-biter was H. L. Mencken, journalist; by accepting the 50¢ as payment for a copy of the green-covered magazine, The American Mercury, of which he is the editor, he had broken an edict which barred that magazine from sale in Boston as "indecent...
...swear that if that man is not a mountebank, as Mencken contends (and I am afraid Mencken is wrong) he, at least, most assuredly, is an unpardonable crank, a sort of belated Don Quixote of new puritanism, who ultimately will discredit the highly responsible office he holds, in a highly modernized society...
...Mencken may hold a higher place than Mr. Chase in the minds of Harvard students. He stands on the side most congenial to their manner of thinking. Mr. Chase is to most a perpetuation in singularly disturbing form of the unattractive hypocrisies of a decadent and disastrous yesterday. Yet he believes that he is as honest and progressive a citizen of Boston as is Mr. Mencken of Baltimore. And in his thinking that lies a certain grandeut of faith which too often is slighted by the clever and the essentially national
Questionnaires were sent to 300 colleges and only 148 replied. The rule among the 148 is a single, comprehensive, upperclass course covering the whole field from the Mathers to Mencken, for which six hours of study-credit are given for the year. This type of course is boiled down in 25 institutions? including Michigan, Illinois, Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Colorado, Occidental and Yale?to two hours a week and then usually amplified by offering advanced courses. Ohio, Grinnell, Hamilton, Amherst, Florida, Kalamazoo, Mount Holyoke, Carleton and 16 others content themselves with semester or quarter-year outline courses...
...particularly when he has written so many in the same vein. Not even the most vigorous literary adventurer can endure too many adventures. So this last leaves Mr. Farnol rather weak. Yet there are still a great many world-worn moderns, tired equally of Main Street and Mencken, who wish occasionally to roam along paths--and "The High Adventure" leads them thus. So perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take...