Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That fiery apostle of American literary independence, Mr. H. L. (never Henry Louis!) Mencken, is at it again. He joins battle this time with Hugh Walpole in an open letter in the December Bookman in defense of what the Englishman had described in the November issue as "a scream and a yell on your part because of the agonozing decadence of contemporary English literature...
...Passage to India." "The Constant Nymph." "The Green Hat," the biographies of Lytton Strachey, Shaw's "Saint Joan:" Mr. Walpose was many an instance to offer in evidence of the continued vitality of literature in England. Mr. Mencken dismisses each one with a contemptuous short. "I believe that Americans of the more reflective sort have had a dreadful lover does of such bilge...
From the editorial labyrinths of "The American Mercury" Mr. Charles Angoff satellite of the more notorious Mr. Mencken, advances to deevy the Boston of today. In his essay "Boston Twilight" he buries Boston beneath rather violent verbiage. Her stage is, to quote the critic. "A paradise of leg shows"; her literature "as dead at the Hittite empire," her press, "the garbage can of American journalism." Indeed, to read Mr. Angoff's essay is to listen for long pages to a booming, often banal barrage of rather heavy wit. He buries Boston and he does so with a bang...
...Mencken and Nathan would probably be delighted to take part in the chase as beaters. These eminent sportsmen are thoroughly acquainted with the bush country and in addition they have gained quite a reputation as snipers. It is said that in their trophy room these worthies have several rare bigots and hypocrites with unusually large horns...
...Following his graduation in 1900, Mr. Eaton immediately became a reporter for the Boston Journal. Since then he has been dramatic critic for the New York Tribune, and the New York Sun. At present he is on the staff of the American Magazine, and often contributes to H. L. Mencken's American Mercury...