Mencken described the work as " most important book in its effects upon my professional career.

While Mencken did not champion women's rights, he described women as wiser in many novel and observable ways, while demeaning average men.

Mencken's diary describes Hergesheimer's frustration at the decline of his popularity and the lack of interest by his publishers, and according to one literary legend, when Hergesheimer asked why nobody was interested in his books anymore, Mencken replied, " I don't know, Joe.

When Partisan and Kenyon set up shop, Mencken was still accepted as an arbiter of taste ( remember Hergesheimer??

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.

His father, Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand von Bismarck ( Schönhausen, 13 November 1771 – 22 November 1845 ), was a Junker estate owner and a former Prussian military officer ; his mother, Wilhelmine Luise Mencken ( Potsdam, 24 February 1789 – Berlin ), the well-educated daughter of a senior government official in Berlin.

Mencken — generally considered to be a leading authority on the common English usage in the United States — was not aware that it already existed.

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.

It was Mencken who provided the trial with its most colorful labels such as the " Monkey Trial " of " the infidel Scopes.

Years later, Mencken did question whether dismissing Bryan " as a quack pure and unadulterated " was " really just.

H. L. Mencken explained the derogatory term John Cheese was often applied to the early Dutch colonists, who were famous for their cheeses.

His self-esteem was enhanced when H. L. Mencken, editor of the popular magazine, American Mercury, bought two of his stories, " Fool " and " Figures of Fighting Men.

Mencken advised Valentino to " let the dreadful farce roll along to exhaustion ", but Valentino insisted the editorial was " infamous.

Henry Louis " H. L ." Mencken ( September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956 ), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, critic of American life and culture, and a scholar of American English.

In addition to his literary accomplishments, Mencken was known for his controversial ideas.

The nickname Bluegrass State was given to Kentucky because of the grazing grass there named Poa pratensis In the 1930s, according to the historian of the American language H. L. Mencken, the word was spelled blue-grass.

Paradise, like Intercourse, is a popular site in Pennsylvania Dutch Country for tourists who like the name of the town ; they are together often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Blue Ball, Lititz, Intercourse, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand, and Mount Joy .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote: It was the setting of the 1994 comedy film Trapped in Paradise.

In an obituary for MacBride, David Boaz wrote, " In some ways he was the last living link to the best of the Old Right, the rugged-individualist, anti-New Deal, anti-interventionist spirit of Rep. Howard Buffett, Albert Jay Nock, H. L. Mencken, Isabel Paterson, and Lane.

The Fortean Society was founded in 1931 to promote his works and over time its members included H. L. Mencken, R. Buckminster Fuller and Frank Lloyd Wright.

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.

Due to increasing differences with the publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, Sr., he served in that role for only a brief time, but Mencken wrote that Hazlitt was the " only competent critic of the arts that I have heard of who was at the same time a competent economist, of practical as well as theoretical training ," adding that he " is one of the few economists in human history who could really write.

H. L. Mencken judged that it was " so infernally hideous that it ought to be pulled down by the common hangman.

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.

There he met journalist H. L. Mencken who became the subject for Manchester's master's thesis and first book, Disturber of the Peace.

His first major role in a Broadway hit was in Inherit the Wind in 1955 portraying Newspaperman E. K. Hornbeck ( based on real life cynic H. L. Mencken ).

Mencken provided an outlet for McWilliams's early journalism and floated the idea for his first book, a 1929 biography of popular writer and sometime Californian Ambrose Bierce.

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 published a facetious article entitled A Neglected Anniversary, purporting to give the " history of the bathtub ", claiming the first was installed in the US on December 20, 1842, and did not become popular in the states until one was installed in the White House by president Millard Fillmore.

It sold 100, 000 copies in the first month and was popular among young girls, but was pilloried by conservative critics and readers, and lightly ridiculed by H. L. Mencken.

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.

In the tradition of Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary, Mencken wanted to defend " Americanisms " against a steady stream of English critics, who usually isolated Americanisms as borderline barbarous perversions of the mother tongue.

At first, the magazine was seen as moving to the Left, but a year after Mencken's departure Knopf sold the Mercury to Paul A. Palmer, a former Mencken colleague at The Baltimore Sun.

Mencken ( 1880-1956 ) credited the mania for adding "- nik " to the ends of adjectives to create nouns to Al Capp's American comic strip Li ' l Abner ( 1934-77 ) rather than to the influence of " Sputnik ", first recorded in 1957, or " beatnik ", first recorded in 1958.

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.

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.

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

Mencken released two full-sized Supplements to the main volume in later years ( 1945, 1948 ), while revising and enlarging the main volume itself, based on the boom in linguistics articles.

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.

The Independent Institute is the recipient of numerous awards, including two Mencken Awards, seven Sir Antony Fisher International Memorial Awards, the Benjamin Franklin Awards from the Independent Book Publishers Association, two IPPY Awards from Independent Publisher Magazine, and a 4M Highest Rating for Ethics in Social and Public Policy from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

Mencken, declared " that he is a great artist, and that no other American of his generation left so wide and handsome a mark upon the national letters.

In personal letters especially, Mencken would write that women should appreciate men and do their best to support them.

In fact, Mencken hoped to meet with Shaw, but his letters went unanswered.