Word: menckenisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...inclined to undervalue literary vitality. A Treasury of the Familiar ($5), edited by Ralph L. Woods, usefully disregarded taste and value in favor of collating hundreds of literary tags, good, bad & in different, which lie, on the literate tongue, just between tantalizing half-memory and ready reference. H. L. Mencken's A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources ($7.50) was as rich a book for ruminators as the year brought; and The American Thesaurus of Slang ($5), edited by Lester V. Berrey and Melvin Van den Bark, came about as near completely corralling...
...Mencken...
...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...