Word: menckenism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...AMERICAN LANGUAGE: SUPPLEMENT Two (933 pp.)-H. L. Mencken-Knopf...
...interviewer how the Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year. "I'm an old reporter and I can't stand...
Writing in the magazine '48, able Journalist Kenneth Stewart agrees that there have been "many stupid, many dull, many reactionary and many ridiculously belated awards." Among the newsmen who get prizes from Stewart and Binder (but never got Pulitzers): Heywood Broun, Raymond Clapper, Webb Miller, H. L. Mencken, A. T. Steele, Dorothy Thompson...
...presented in Brensham Village and its predecessor The Fair Field (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), will do for the U.S. reader what Hollywood did for Lord Orris-transport him into an overseas dreamland whose main charm is its remoteness from everyday life. Just as the romantic "reporting" of H. L. Mencken makes old Baltimore a place of "happy days," so does Author Moore's accomplished imagination remove his rural Englishmen as far from mediocre reality as Falstaff and Prince Hal are from the men in the Kinsey report...
...journalism a profession, a trade, a game or a 6% investment? H. L. Mencken once gave his answer: "A journalist still lingers in the twilight zone, along with the trained nurse, the embalmer, the rev. clergy and the great majority of engineers. . . . [He] remains, for all his dreams, a hired man . . . and the hired man is not a professional...