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...Mencken wrote: "Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work." That is no longer true. Unions today are showing that they understand that their cooperation is necessary in the drive to return the U.S. economy to steady, noninflationary growth...
...earliest published fiction was in the form of brief, sharply satirical dialogues. The two dialogues included in the Baby in the Icebox collection, "The Hero" and "Theological Interlude," both originally appeared in the early '20s in The American Mercury, a magazine run by Cain's friend, the satirist H.L. Mencken. Cain overloads these pieces with his own impression of lower middle class dialect. His satire of the characters is not balanced (as it is in his later work) with compassion for them, and the pieces show only too clearly for what they are--raw, condescending attempts by an educated...
Americans, too, were once fairly agile at the art, though they tended to use a club more than a quill. There was William Allen White's little note on Mencken, for example...
...Talking), novels (A Mouse Is Born) and memoirs of Hollywood (A Girl Like I). Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, which formed the basis of two movies and two theatrical productions-notably the 1949 musical starring Carol Channing-was written as a lark during a transcontinental train ride with H.L. Mencken. Said Loos: "My only purpose was to make Henry Mencken laugh, which...
...Slums in Ten Years) saw it, Baltimore could become a valuable and joyous town. It is, after all, the home of the Orioles, the Ouija board, the softshell crab, the national anthem, the nation's first passenger railroad (the Baltimore & Ohio), Johns Hopkins Hospital and University, the Preakness, H.L. Mencken and Edgar Allan Poe (not to mention Spiro Agnew). It is also one of the last American possessors of a genuine honky-tonk district, known fondly as The Block, though even that lusty landmark has been sadly vulgarized by topless dancing and a renewal project that has largely plasticized...