Word: menckenism
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...Herbert Harris (Knopf; $2.50). Two years ago young (34) Historian Harris established his right to be heard on these matters when he published a factual, informative, detached book, American Labor, that summed up labor's story. There is nothing detached about Labor's Civil War. Like some Mencken of the proletariat, heaving adjectives at labor's sacred cows, Mr. Harris sustains a note of exasperation, ridicule, hell-and-damnation for 298 pages to show how American unions are moving toward "a double suicide of majestic stupidity...
...late Columnist Arthur Brisbane used about 42 adjectives per 100 verbs; H. L. Mencken, about...
...Said H. L. Mencken, sage of Baltimore: ". . . The Hon. Mr. Roosevelt and his associated wizards are itching to horn into the great crusade to save humanity...
Informed that H. L. Mencken has a name for strip-tease artists (TIME, April 29), Teaseuse Gypsy Rose Lee ejaculated: "Ecdysiast he calls me! Why, the man is an intellectual slob. He has been reading books...
Less picturesque than such better known family memoirs as Life With Father, Grandma Called It Carnal, Mencken's Happy Days, Author Flexner's story of her girlhood is nevertheless charming Americana. Quaker-plain in the telling, it is noteworthy among oldsters' memoirs for one fact in particular: despite Author Flexner's pleasant memories, she evokes the unmistakable stresses and veiled repressions that lay under the surface...