Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Like to like and Mr. Mencken to the wilds of Russia, not to undergo the taunts of the Bolsheviki, nor yet to spend a Siberian winter collecting Polar Beariana; but to see his mental meanderings mirrored in the village of Zitlieff. There the peasants, according to the current "Time", administer a justice, the physical counterpart of Menckenism...
...well-known how Mr. Mencken sticks stray figurative pins into the viscera of the age. And in the pricking he seems sometimes to follow an aimless aim; which is perfectly all right because he himself will retort that most purposes are eminent purposeless. And what he says he believes to be true. That all too human adjective belies his paradox...
...light but serious manner the extraordinary story of Mormonism and one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. John Marquand has written an entertaining but slightly padded account of "Lord Timothy Dexter," the freak of Newburyport, and Isaac Goldberg an interesting and elaborate life of "The Man Mencken." Earl Grey's "Memoirs" relate, among other things, what he is willing to tell of the British foreign relations at the outbreak of the War. Dr. Harvey Cushing has written an exhaustive and pleasant life of "Sir William Osler." From a very slight examination, I think Drinkwater's book on Bryon...
Reviewers Attacked. "Newspapers do not employ their best brains in reviewing. The work is done by nice old ladies or nice old gentlemen with a little culture, smart young things who can quote H. L. Mencken or some ex-sporting editor who needs work for his idle hands" -Dr. Henry S. Canby, Editor of The Saturday Review of Literature...
Died. Mrs. Anna Abhau Mencken, 67, mother of famed Editor H. L. Mencken of the American Mercury; at Baltimore, where she had passed her entire life. Friends recalled that she had lived at No. 1524 Hollins Street for 42 years...