Word: menckenian
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...modern work of the first credibility, such as Boswell's Johnson or Eckermann's Gespräche mit Goethe, but it is certainly quite as sound as Parson Weems' Life of Washington or Uncle Tom's Cabin." His concluding remarks are a typical piece of Menckenian irony: he describes a hanging he once reported, at which the Baptist prisoner loudly recited the 23d Psalm while the sheriff and the hangman were busied with the final preparations; the fall of the drop cut short the prisoner's words of praise. Says Mencken: "As an American...
...little by little, by reading more excerpts, Questioner might have brought Shut-Eye to suspect that though the style was Mr. Mencken's the viewpoint was far from his. The page Questioner read from contained 19 press clippings prefaced with Menckenian facetiousness, but the solemnity implied was not, as with Mr. Mencken, mock solemnity. There were two clippings about Rotary Clubs, one about Kiwanis, one about a Chamber of Commerce...