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...department: "For a Puritanized American writer to show gusto would be comparable to a Harvard Professor who writes books admitting that he enjoyed the sex act." B. De. Casseres, "Mencken and Shaw...
...department:--"Hunecker and Mencken did more than any other two men of the century to thin the ranks of the literary stud horses from Vassar and the fillies from Harvard...
...From "Mencken and Shaw" by B. De Casseras...
Called "Dieff" by his friends-including Henry Louis Mencken, with whom he was once a cub reporter in Baltimore-Dr. Dieffenbach is short, chubby, lively. He dresses fastidiously, plays tennis, occupies himself with the affairs of his fraternity Phi Kappa Sigma of which he was once national president. Dr. Dieffenbach says he will be not a "religious editor" but an "editor of religion," devoting himself to all trends of all creeds and sects...
...June Mercury is a lively specimen of its genus, somewhat above the ordinary in general interest. It commences with a salve in the good old Mencken style, written by H. E. Buchholz, and entitled "The Pedagogues at Armageddon," Like most of the Mercury's outbursts on the subject of the American educator, the article in question consists largely of well-calculated contumely and vicious satire; its groundwork of fact, however, is sufficient; those who have followed the inane peregrinations of the National Education Association during the last few years will be only too delighted to read a whole-hearted...