The trial was covered by famous journalists from the South and around the world, including H. L. Mencken for The Baltimore Sun, which was also paying part of the defense's expenses.

He also produced two volumes of memoirs, as well as two volumes of recollections of his friendships and personal encounters with many of the leading figures of his time, including: Pablo Casals, Charlie Chaplin, Eugene Debs, John Dewey, Isadora Duncan, Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, Ernest Hemingway, H. L. Mencken, John Reed, Paul Robeson, Bertrand Russell, Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Santayana, E. W. Scripps, George Bernard Shaw, Carlo Tresca, Leon Trotsky, Mark Twain and H. G. Wells.

Primarily a magazine of satirical reporting and humor, but also featuring some more serious investigative journalism, the New York – based Spy traced its influences to " H. L. Mencken and A. J. Liebling and Wolcott Gibbs from the ' 20s, ' 30s, and ' 40s ; parody-Time-ese of the ' 40s and ' 50s ; New Journalism of the ' 60s and ' 70s ; Private Eye, the scabrous ( and much jokier ) British fortnightly ; and the ways we just happened to write ," as Andersen and Carter would later write in Spy: The Funny Years.

When Jefferson was published in 1928, Mencken praised it as " the work of a subtle and highly dexterous craftsman " which cleared " off the vast mountain of doctrinaire rubbish that has risen above Jefferson's bones and also provides a clear and comprehensive account of the Jeffersonian system ," and the " essence of it is that Jefferson divided all mankind into two classes, the producers and the exploiters, and he was for the former first, last and all the time.

" Mencken also thought the book to be accurate, shrewd, well-ordered and charming.

He was a key member of the Saturday Night Club which also included H. L. Mencken.

He also recounts the life of H. L. Mencken, who befriended him.

In 1923 Knopf also started publishing periodicals, beginning with The American Mercury, founded by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, which it published through 1934.

He has also been awarded the 1996 Mencken Award for Best Editorial Cartoon.

Mencken quotes a newspaper report on the origin of ' lam ' which actually traces it indirectly back to Shakespeare's time.

This story is not mentioned in Dunn ’ s or Mencken ’ s research, but if there were such a contractor and such events, they would have taken place after the term " Hoosier " was already well established in Appalachia and was becoming attached to Indiana.

Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and subsequent trial " the biggest story since the Resurrection ".

In the story, a debunker of pseudoscience encounters a fake medium who seems to be genuinely channelling the disruptive spirit of H. L. Mencken.

Famously vituperative attacks came from journalist H. L. Mencken, whose syndicated columns from Dayton for The Baltimore Sun drew vivid caricatures of the " backward " local populace, referring to the people of Rhea County as " Babbits ," " morons ," " peasants ," " hill-billies ," " yaps ," and " yokels.

H. L. Mencken is credited with coining the word " ecdysiast " – from " ecdysis ", meaning " to molt " – in response to a request from Gypsy Rose Lee for a " more dignified " way to refer to her profession.

Mencken's classic essay " The Malevolent Jobholder " ( from The American Mercury, June 1924 ), in which Mencken proposed "... that it shall be no longer malum in se for a citizen to pummel, cowhide, kick, gouge, cut, wound, bruise, maim, burn, club, bastinado, flay, or even lynch a jobholder, and that it shall be malum prohibitum only to the extent that the punishment exceeds the jobholder ’ s deserts.

Loos had become a devoted admirer of H. L. Mencken and when he was in New York, she would take a break from her " Tuesday Widows ", and join his circle which included Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Joseph Hergesheimer, essayist Ernest Boyd, and theater critic George Jean Nathan.

We the Living was first completed in 1934, but, despite support from H. L. Mencken, who deemed it " a really excellent piece of work ," it was rejected by several publishers until 1936, when George Platt Brett of Macmillan Publishing agreed to publish her book.

Richard Lederer in Crazy English claims that H. L. Mencken had claimed in a 1940s poll that " cellar door " had been favored by a student from China.

* " H. L. Mencken ", from < cite class =" magazine "> The New Republic </ cite > ( November 24, 1917 ).

The three exceptions were the first season finale which uses the phrase " All in the game ", attributed to " Traditional West Baltimore ", a phrase used frequently throughout all five seasons including that episode ; the fourth season finale which uses words written on boarded up vacant homes attributed to " Baltimore, traditional " and the series finale, which started with a quote from H. L. Mencken that is shown on a wall at The Baltimore Sun in one scene, neither quote being spoken by a character.

Mencken from 1926: " Valentino " (" Consider the sordid comedy of his two marriages-the brummagem, star-spangled passion that invaded his very deathbed!

Along with Marion Bloom and Kay Laurell, Mencken gathered material for his book not from libraries and universities, but from saloons and hotels.

Mencken often espoused views of politics, religion, and metaphysics that stressed their grotesqueness and absurdity ; in this context, escape from the fraud of such somber subjects was welcome to him.

His work called to mind a famous line from H. L. Mencken, who, describing President Warren G. Harding's prose, said, ' It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it.

With their mutual book publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., serving as the publisher, Mencken and Nathan created The American Mercury as " a serious review, the gaudiest and damnedest ever seen in the Republic ," as Mencken explained the name ( derived from a 19th-century publication ) to his old friend and contributor, Theodore Dreiser:

And, from 1924 through 1933, Mencken — Nathan was forced to resign as his co-editor a year after the magazine was born — provided precisely what he promised: elegantly irreverent observations of America, aimed at what he called " Americans realistically ," those of sophisticated skepticism of enough that was popular and much that threatened to be.

Its " Americana " section — containing items clipped from newspapers and other magazines nationwide — became a much-imitated feature, and Mencken further spiced the package with aphorisms printed in the magazine's margins whenever space allowed.

Mencken rarely if ever flinched from controversy, and he found himself in the thick of it when The American Mercury was just over two years old, when the April 1926 issue published " Hatrack ," a chapter from Herbert Asbury's Up From Methodism.

Various interest groups, beginning with the Anti-Defamation League, accused Maguire's Mercury of ongoing and increasing Jew-baiting, particularly when it drew a number of purportedly anti-Jewish comments from the writings of Mencken himself back for reprint.

On December 28, 1917, an article titled “ A Neglected Anniversary ” by H. L. Mencken was published in the New York Evening Mail.

In 1993 he received the Mencken Award for best editorial / op-ed column for his New York Times exposé of " Nayirah ", the Kuwaiti diplomat's daughter who helped fake the Iraqi baby-incubator atrocity.

* Mencken on Mencken: A New Collection of Autobiographical Writings ( Louisiana State University Press, 2010 ).

* Mencken, H. L., A Mencken Chrestomathy, New York: Alfred P. Knopf, 1949

Like Mencken, Huie was a critic of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's " New Deal " policies during the Great Depression.

H. L. Mencken survived the fire, but the offices of his newspaper, the Baltimore Herald, were destroyed.

The earliest known usage of the term " Bible Belt " was by American journalist and social commentator H. L. Mencken, who in 1924 wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune: " The old game, I suspect, is beginning to play out in the Bible Belt.

Mencken is known for writing The American Language, a multi-volume study of how the English language is spoken in the United States, and for his satirical reporting on the Scopes trial, which he dubbed the " Monkey Trial ".

Black Mask was a pulp magazine launched in 1920 by journalist H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan as one of a number of money-making publishing ventures to support the prestigious literary magazine The Smart Set, which Mencken edited, and which operated at a loss.

In the same year, he became H. L. Mencken's chosen successor as editor of the literary magazine, The American Mercury, which Mencken had founded with George Jean Nathan.

There were a number of mostly informal musical societies in Maryland by the end of the 19th century, including the famous Saturday Night Club of H. L. Mencken and the influential Florestan Club, which hosted such musicians as Mischa Elman, Leopold Stokowski and Walter Damrosch.

In the case of Mencken, at least, Babbitt gave as good as he got ; he branded Mencken's writing as " intellectual vaudeville ", a criticism with which posterity has had some sympathy.

In 1902, Mencken remarked on the " queer words which go into the making of ' United States.

George Bernard Shaw: His Plays ( 1905 ) is H. L. Mencken's interpretation of G. Bernard Shaw's plays, in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who was, at that time, his favourite playwright.

During a second encounter outside of Robinson's Drug Store, Mencken told Martin there was a group of Bolsheviks arriving in town to murder Bryan, which sent the preacher to warn the local police that the ACLU.

Mencken house, which is located in the neighborhood at 1524 Hollins Street.

The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra of the 19th century had floundered in 1899, was replaced by a new orchestra organized by the Florestan Club, which included author H. L. Mencken ; the Club ensured that the orchestra would be the first municipally funded company in the country.