Word: oftens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slope, hit two trees and fell into the lake. The Queen fractured her skull, died 20 minutes later. The King hurtled through the car's windshield. To the first policeman who came by asking his identity, he answered in a dazed voice: "Rethy, Mr. & Mrs. Rethy" (the name often used by the royal family when traveling...
...dressed down his ministers publicly and created a serious cabinet crisis by talking of firing them for a group of "technicians" who would carry out the royal policy. "Responsibilities are in wrong places," he complained. "The head of state is often obliged to sanction decisions in which he has no part...
...That is to say, I am incapable of religious experience, in any true sense ... I dislike any man who is pious, and all such men that I know dislike me." The Chrestomathy is liberally sprinkled with his truculent gibes at all faiths, but none feel his unsparing rod more often than the Methodists and Baptists ("As for the Methodists, the Baptists and other such mudsills of the Lord . . ."). As for his own soul: "I go on believing dismally that when the bells ring and the cannon are fired, and people go rushing about frantic with grief, and my mortal clay...
...boys of the '20s and early '30s. He scorned marriage ("Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too"). But he shook the faith of many an admirer when he married at 50 and said: "I have often imagined that I would be as perfect a husband as a woman could find." Otherwise, as his Chrestomathy proves, he has been consistent in his peeves and gripes through several decades. But Mencken seldom descended to personal brawls in print. Like many a man with a terrible pen, he preferred...
...found that just as tropical forests outgrow and outbloom Western vegetation, so do some diseases in the tropics flourish with a luxuriance that amounts to melodrama. An ovarian cyst, Annamite-style, has been known to weigh more than the half-starved body in which it grew. Hernias often achieve a size "so gigantic as to have lost all possibilities of residence inside the abdomen...