Word: menckenism
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Nancy Hoyt, sister of Poetess Elinor Wylie, devotee of the Great God Mencken, is a worldly wise young lady adept at cynical, momentary elegance of thought and phrase. Her previous novel, Roundabout, was not "popular...
...company. Many an adventure he enjoyed because no proper person would. Slyly he defended the social standing of young ladies with bodies like "white satin stoves." He exulted in his holy war on behalf of Chopin. He inspired the admiration, even the imitation, of the religiously individualistic H. L. Mencken...
...have passed unnoticed - for Sinclair Lewis and others have long since so improved upon the Sinclair journalese that what once seemed striking is now stale as War news. But some policemen in Boston found passages in the book which made them feel it should be suppressed. Recalling H. L. Mencken's coup with "Hatrack" in the American Mercury under similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly and orating on Boston Common,† and of recent weeks the book has had a sale over which even a Communist might...
...typically American, quaintly ungrammatical." It is obvious that he knows nothing of Amer. or of the study of language, for the English grammar used in this country is far more nearly accurate, and infinitely less crude and vulgar, than that used by the corresponding classes in England. H. L. Mencken proves this point thoroughly in his masterly study The American Language -if, indeed, it needs proving, which it does not. The lowest and "toughest" holiday crowd at Coney Island uses better speech, and far better manners, than the mob at Margate, Blackpool, Brighton or Southend. Mr. Dowse contradicts himself when...
...Christ in America, advocate that a band of 40 Protestant pastors go as evangelists among college and university students, "those overfed and underworked youths who should be steered into the path of religion and the church, and who should be saved from the beliefs preached by H. L. Mencken and his ghoulish crowd...