Word: menckenisms
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...Then Mr. Mencken arose: " The reason we attacked this poor fool* and ruined him was an effort to substitute the courts of law for back-alley assassination. . . . From now on we are going to make these fellows bring their charges into the open. . . . And they're easy to beat. We've just proved that. When you get after them, 99% will run, and the other 1% is easy picking...
...After this utterance, Editor Mencken presented Harvard University with the Flag of Maryland (he is a native of Baltimore) and the students and professors, rising to their feet, tendered him the Harvard cheer, three times three. Commented the New York Tribune...
...incurable vulgarity of H. L. Mencken is mixed with a considerable amount of business acumen. . . . He has made his living for years by smart jibes at the common mind. Nothing is easier to write than this form of humor. He is completely alien to America. . . the penny-dreadful of the intelligentsia. . . a professional smart-Aleck...
...days later, Editor Mencken was informed that the U. S. Post Office Department had barred from the mails not only the issue of the American Mercury containing "Hatrack," but all reprints in whatever form. At Farmington, Mo., home town of Hatrack and of the author of "Hatrack" (Herbert Asbury, a member of the staff of the New York Herald Tribune), Rev. Frank T. Jarnigan exulted: "This is one of the greatest moral victories Farmington has ever won." He intimated that prayers of thanksgiving would be said in his church (Methodist) and a congratulatory message sent to the Postmaster General...
...Editor Mencken presented what to his Harvard disciples...