Word: menckenisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS ON HISTORICAL PRINCIPLES FROM ANCIENT AND MODERN SOURCES -Selected & Edited by H. L Mencken -Knopf...
...result of Editor Mencken's 25 years of "literary scavenging," this is one of the rare books that deserve the well-worn greeting "Here at last." No greater nor more useful than Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or Burton Stevenson's Home Book of Quotations, its 1,347 close-printed, double-columned pages are nevertheless packed with entertainment, edification and some valuable innovations. The quotations are dated, whenever possible, back to the first man who uttered them. They are arranged not under their authors but "under many more rubrics than any other such work can show." With careful...
...long may it wave." He will discover, if he did not know it, that "Spare the rod and spoil the child" is not from the Bible but is a folk improvement on it dating from about A.D. 1,000. He will be glad to see that Editor Mencken enshrines his file-tongued old friend James Huneker ("He died without owing me a cent"); that he respects the gentle excellence of the late Justice Brandeis' dissenting opinions; that he is not afraid to rescue Elbert Hubbard from the Roycrofters (with, for instance, his definition of God as "The John...
...Tory Lord Halifax. From America young Walter Reuther, who has pointed a new path in labor-capital relations, or the more established leaders of labor such as David Dubinski and Sidney Hillman. Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, Paul Robeson in the arts and Clifford Odets and H. L. Mencken in literature are other men for whom academic recognition is overdue...
...most notable autobiography was that of the Indian Nationalist leader Jawaharlal Nehru ($4); the most engaging was John Masefield's In The Mill ($2); and for those interested there was Editor in Politics ($3.50), second volume in Josephus Daniels' cracker-box marathon of total recall. Henry Mencken (Newspaper Days) also continued his memoirs...