Word: menckenism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...picture of any social problem but high tables in the stultifying atmosphere of Harvard self-approval. The average Harvard man is usually a disciple of the mysterious metaphysics of the department of Government, or else he is whooping it up in the train of some attractive tub-thumper like Mencken. Such muddleheadedness, naturally derived from their betters, leads the students to support Hoover because it is the thing to do, or to support Roosevelt because he sounds so nice and liberal, even though they know you can't prove it. Those men who might be politically minded find themselves confronted...
...MAKING OF A PRESIDENT?H. L. Mencken?Knopf ($1.50). Reprints of Mencken's newspaper reports of the Republican and Demo cratic Conventions...
...crowd of notables that swarmed to shake the Rogers hand appeared Henry Lewis Mencken, eating a big black cigar. "Who's going to be Vice President, Will?" asked he. Reporter Rogers favored Charles Curtis. "The Republicans should not show so much race prejudice," ob served Mr. Mencken. "They had an In dian last time. They ought to get a nig ger this year...
Back cracked Reporter Rogers in his syndicated colyum: "H. L. Mencken was backing the Presidential candidacy of Senator France. If he had been elected the American Mercury would have re placed the Congressional Record...
...Bull Market and its child the Crash, which is treated well, simply and understandably. The arrival of the new morality, along with its unwanted offspring the confession, magazines, tabloids, etc., is traced, and alcohol and Al receive their due share of space. The steady jeering of Mencken, Lewis, and the highbrows is allowed to echo through the book's pages and upon finishing, one can understand why Mencken once answered the question of why he stays in America by, why do people go to zoos...