Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...overwhelming vote of the audience the negative of the question, Resolved: That the school of thought represented by H. L. Mencken is inimical to American Culture, was defended at a meeting of the Debating Union last night...
...first speaker for the affirmative, D. W. Chapman '27, scored Mr. Mencken's writing as useless and his critical invective as ineffective in reaching the marks it is aimed at. Chapman said that Mencken attacks the obviously commonplace, the Babbitts, the Dayton ministers, Rotarians and others who do not hear him because they do not buy the Mercury. Chapman likewise attacked the criticism of Mencken's school as consisting largely of exaggeration. He also pointed out his fallacious one-sided interest in life--he sees only the perverted, ignorant side. Chapman's conclusion was that it might be better...
...Gupper '26 upheld Mencken on the ground that his chief efforts have been to create a new and distinctive American...
Barrett Williams '28 emphasised in essence of the fact that Mr. Mencken has considerable capability, but he merely wastes his time in poking fun at people, which people never read what he says...
...Forrest, who plays Diane is as pathetic a golden haired girl who "hadn't been good" as ever walked the streets of Montmartre in an American play. For two fall acts she is tyrannized by the depraved sister, the ghastliest apparation that ever sipped absinthe for breakfast. Miss Grace Mencken, as the sister Nana, succeeded in raising the gooseflesh of horror on one member of the audience, at least, for the first time since the Phantom of the Opera was unmasked. As Chico, a handsome, Apache-like figure, turned atheist after burning candles and praying without avail to St. Antoine...