Word: mencken
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With no reserve and in his characteristic frank manner, Dr. Straton decried Clarence Darrow, H. L. Mencken, Rupert Hughes, Bertrand Russell, and others as having aided in not only the tendency but in an institution with financial backing for undermining the social structure of the country...
...goes through the other months with the following among others, contributing their specialities--poems, wit, essays, drawings, criticism: John Macy, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker, George Jean Nathan, Phillips Russell, A.H. Woods, Ida M. Tarbell, Sidney S. Lenz, Jane Cowl, H.L. Mencken, and Florenz Ziegfeld...
...published, John S. Sumner of Manhattan, professional moral crusader, had tried but failed to seize and suppress the printing plates. Local newspapers gave this episode routine mention, but most editors chose not to air the alleged love life of Warren Gamaliel Harding and the appeal based thereon. Henry Lewis Mencken touched on it in a distant, rambling article for the Baltimore Sun. The Democratic New York World treated it conventionally as biography, in a book review, with no front page headlines. The New Republic came closest to "featuring" the item. For the rest, there was what amounted to a conspiracy...
Among the more outstanding marks-men who have loosed the flight of slings and arrows at the ex-marine have been Heywood Broun, Louis Bromfield, Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken. "One has only to contrast the interviews given by these two men, Dempsey and Tunney; one simple and profound, the other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another...
...Mencken is a stocky Dutchman whose appearance suggests the beer-drinking of which he is notoriously fond. He is a polite man socially although certain vulgarisms which he permits himself in private have led to a contrary impression. His writing career began in his native town, on the Baltimore Sun, to the editorial staff of which he now belongs. With Mr. Nathan he rose to repute as one of the editors of the Smart Set, and to fame as the editor of the American Mercury which the two started in 1923. Two years ago he toured, in eccentric fashion, part...