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Ridicule has always been a telling weapon in the fight against society's foibles, from Aristophanes to Sir' Roger de Coverly, and from Artemus Ward to H. L. Mencken. Such an attempt at ridicule as Princeton's may be too obvious to call forth more than a tolerantly amused laugh from old and young alike; still it will attract attention, and that is probably all its progenitors hoped to achieve. The splendid points of the program, the stab at the Congress that will drain its coffers painfully dry, the shaft directed at the sometime patriots who in return...
Henry Louis Mencken: Tweedledum and Tweedledee are still twins, even when one wears the cold mask of Hoover and the other the professional smile of Roosevelt. Herbert Hoover: We have complete confidence in the American people...
SOUTHERN ALBUM - Sara Haardt - Doubleday, Dor an ($2). Some of the South's ghostlike old ladies & gentlemen, their uneasy children and still clear-eyed grandchildren, followed through heart-changing incidents in good stories, by the late wife of H. L. Mencken who writes a preface...
Last week in the March American Mercury Henry Louis Mencken flayed Franklin Roosevelt, with a blistering summary of the New Deal which closed with the statement: "There was a time when the Republicans were scouring the country for a behemoth to pit against him. Now they begin to grasp the fact that if they can beat him at all, which seems most likely, they can beat him with a Chinaman, or even a Republican...
...urbane satirist. It has had bucolic satirists, like Finley Peter ("Mr. Dooley") Dunne and Mark Twain, bull-roarers like H. L. Mencken, splenetic idealists like Sinclair Lewis, ironic fantasists like James Branch Cabell and Robert Nathan. But last week critics hitched up their chairs, clapped on their best glasses and took a good hard look at Thomas Sigismund Stribling's latest novel, Sound Wagon. Before reading it, few would have admitted that Author Stribling might be capable of urbanity, let alone sustained satire. After reading it, many might have allowed that here at last was a U. S. satirical...