Mencken and Bloom ended their relationship in the early 1920s, though Bloom continued to admire Mencken.

Mencken credits the postwar mania for adding "- nik " to the ends of adjectives to create nouns as beginning — not with beatnik or Sputnik — but earlier, in the pages of Li ' l Abner.

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

Mencken for advice on how best to deal with the incident.

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.

Mount Joy is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise .< ref name =" Mencken63 "> Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

Lititz is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Mount Joy, Bareville, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

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.

Bird-in-Hand is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Bareville, Mount Joy and Paradise .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

Bareville is often named in lists of " delightfully-named towns " in Pennsylvania Dutchland, along with Intercourse, Blue Ball, Lititz, Mount Joy, Bird-in-Hand and Paradise .< ref > Mencken ( 1963 ) p. 653 quote:

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.

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.

Mencken credits the postwar mania for adding "- nik " to the ends of adjectives to create nouns as beginning — not with beatnik or Sputnik, but earlier — in the pages of Li ' l Abner.

Mencken, who enjoyed a forty-plus year association with the paper.

Followers of Mencken, along with like-minded critics, were sometimes called “ Babbitt-baiters .”

Loos adored Mencken with what may have been love, and preferred this group over the Round Table.

She gradually realized Emerson paled in comparison to someone like Mencken, and disappointingly, high-IQ gentlemen didn't fall for women with brains, but those with more " downstairs ".

Pushed on by Mencken, she signed with Boni & Liveright.

Gilmore lists a number of people who influenced LaVey's writings: Ayn Rand, Friedrich Nietzsche, H. L. Mencken, the members of the carnival with whom LaVey had supposedly worked in his youth, P. T. Barnum, Mark Twain, John Milton, and Lord Byron.

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 research fellows with the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank.

Mencken: " Tertullian is credited with the motto ' Credo quia absurdum ' -- ' I believe because it is impossible '.

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.

Mencken believed that Dreiser ’ s raw, honest portrayal of Carrie ’ s life should be seen as a courageous attempt to give the reader a realistic view of the life of women in the nineteenth century.

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 and Sinclair Lewis, author of Babbitt, cited the Middletown studies as examples of the banality and shallowness of American life.

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

In the 1920s Mencken led the attack on the genteel tradition in American literature, ridiculing the provinicialism of American intellectual life.

As a composer he wrote music for both Broadway and off-Broadway shows, including Blast and Bravos, a musical based on the life 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.

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.

Other offerings: humorous sketches by Damon Runyon ; O. Henry stories ; editorials by Arthur Brisbane ; Ring Lardner letter ; " Rippling Rhymes ," by Walt Mason ; literary articles by H. L. Mencken.

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.

H. L. Mencken, whose nationally published coverage of the Scopes Trial referred to the town's creationist inhabitants as " yokels " and " morons ," referred to assisting counsel for the prosecution as a " buffoon " and his speeches as " theologic bilge ," while referring to the defense as " eloquent " and " magnificent.

Baltimore in the 1880s smelled " like a billion polecats ," according to H. L. Mencken, and a Chicagoan said in his city " the stink is enough to knock you down.

Mencken had criticized Puritanism for many years, famously characterizing it as " the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy ," but through World War I his criticism became increasingly outspoken, in part due to the rising tide of Prohibition.

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.

Nathan provided theater criticism, and Mencken wrote the " Editorial Notes " and " The Library ," the last being book reviews and social critique, placed at the back of each volume.

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.