Word: menckenism
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...Perhaps the question of India can be best understood if we refer it to Mencken's law. The Bard of Baltimore annunciated this gem some time...
Boob-Thumper. Those who were surprised by Gerald Smith's audacious bid for the nomination do not know Gerald Smith. Huey Long called him a better rabble-rouser than himself, a tribute which pleased Gerald Smith as much as H. L. Mencken's appraisal of him as the "champion boob-thumper of all epochs...
Asked whether he would help inprove the caliber of Maryland State officeholders by consenting to run for office in the House of Delegates, Author H. L Mencken loftily replied: "The only office I would consider is that of bishop...
...foreword, H. L. Mencken (who as a newspaperman has witnessed nine excutions) says that By the Neck was not planned as a "book of horrors," but to show how men behave in the face of "dreadful doom." He believes his brother's book is the first attempt to bring together "a mass of objective data relating to an important phenomenon of civilization...