Word: menckenisms
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...advertisement appearing in the current magazines offers to cure Mr. Babbitt, the type of all that is not Mencken, by selling him the American Mercury. It is a good advertisement in that it appeals to those who have learned to laugh at this particular phenomenon every time that it is seen. And it is as honest an advertisement as most...
...related to Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken, editor of the American Mercury...
...degrees of M.A. and Ph.D. are for research in romance philology. He constitutes something of a pundit on Yiddish and Latin-American literatures, having served the Haldeman-Julius Co. ("Little Blue Books"?Girard, Kan.) in that capacity. Last year he published an exhaustive book on Editor H. L. Mencken of the American Mercury, for whom he has great admiration...
Vacations are like beautiful ladies both rare and fleeting, especially when one has a bank account of eight cents, owes three and must eat some time. So I can remember very distinctly just what happened the last week of classes. There was Mencken and Brown and a ball game with more errors from eating peanuts than otherwise--also a Crime column which provoked someone to remark rather caustically, "So the Crimson now goes in for the 'say dearie' stuff." Which last completely floored me, since I had spent weeks of patient research in hunting down that particular epistle and expected...
Some days ago the New York Herald Tribune characterized H. L. Mencken as a "Professional Smart Aleck," a phrase which aptly describes those who write such stuff as "Came an eagle" and "a rival musnud of learning" in TIME, April 12, pp. 33, 34... Let me remind you that this sort of thing has been going on for two* years, and...ceases to be funny...