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...Jest, etc.), Capt. William H. Stay ton (Association Against the Prohibition Amendment founder and president), Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis (U. S. Supreme Court) and Dr. James McKeen Cattell (Editor of Science) were bracketed and equally recommended, as "six highly intelligent and industrious men . . . gentlemen," by Editor Henry Louis Mencken of the American Mercury, for President...
...approval of the sophisticated New York World, which said: "The Rotarian is not without his points." And does not President Glenn Frank of the University of Wisconsin write for the Rotarian among other publications?the same Glenn Frank whom that loudest anti-Rotarian toothgnasher, H. L. Mencken, has recommended, for U. S. President...
Stubborn Shut-Eye would surely have insisted that no U. S. magazine save Editor H. L. Mencken's kraut-liveried American Mercury would make fun of the Bible Belt. Why, Editor Mencken virtually invented that damning phrase. No month passes without its appearance, many times repeated, on that page of the American Mercury dedicated to exposing the mental fumbles and spiritual solecisms of Mr. Mencken's "booboisie" to his admiring acolytes...
...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...
...matter of fact, the "Americana" formula is no invention of H. L. Mencken's, though he it is who made its fame. The New Republic (liberal weekly) has long had a department called "The Bandwagon" wherein are reprinted, without sarcastic blurbs, excerpted blatancies and stupidities from public orations, sermons, editorials, church bulletins, interviews...