Word: menckens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CHRISTMAS STORY (31 pp.) - H. L Mencken-Knopf...
Just in time for the Christmas trade, this tiny book contains perhaps the nearest thing to piety in Mencken's writings. It is a moral tale, told in the Sage of Baltimore's redolent and contented prose. The story-originally printed in the New Yorker-attests to the triumph of Christian reflexes over heathen among the bums of Baltimore 45 years...
...without a detailed blast in the pages of Boston paper, great bonfires of indignation over the police department, the commissioners, the district attorneys, even the courts. As a result, Chase was twice publicly made quite the fool, once by the dyspeptic H. L. Mencken (who, incidentally, got valuable publicity for the infant Mercury) and once by the Society's own board of directors, who retreated in horror as Chase inveigled, almost hounded a book seller into trafficking in dubious literature so that Chase might have his test case. At this point Professor Julian Coolidge led a group of prominent Bostonians...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Poet Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology), Yale Professor (of Greek) Eugene O'Neill Jr. and New Republic Editor Malcolm Cowley debate H. L. Mencken's American Language...
...Mencken, American Language, Supplement I: "Shambles is a very old word in English. ... In American usage it has now come to signify any sort of 'very great, perhaps complete disorder, confusion or destruction...