Mencken described the diary entry as a misreading of the author's self-correction, and stated it was in reality the first two letters of the words a h before noticing the phrase had been used in the previous line and changing his mind.

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.

Waters " was an anagram for " Owen Hatteras ", a pseudonym used by H. L. Mencken, a writer and editor much admired by Bradford.

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.

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.

Mencken said the word rubberneck is " almost a complete treatise on American psychology " and " one of the best words ever coined ".

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.

Mencken and Nathan had previously edited The Smart Set literary magazine together, when not producing their own books and, in Mencken's case, regular journalism for The Baltimore Sun.

Mencken challenged Donnelly, aroused the prospect of a landmark free speech case before the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and legendary Judge Learned Hand.

The name is often shortened to Mt Joy, as in Mencken ( 1963 ), but this is incorrect, since the " mount " in Mount Joy does not refer to a mountain.

They sold well, and H. L. Mencken asserted that these books did more to pull America out of the Great Depression than all government measures combined.

To Mencken, George F. Babbitt was more than a character ; he was an archetype, representing swarms of American city dwellers that touted the virtues of Republicanism, Presbyterianism, and absolute conformity.

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 ".

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.

According to Mencken, American English was more colorful, vivid, and creative than its British counterpart.

Spivak even more than Palmer revived the Mercury for a brief but vigorous period — Mencken, Nathan, and Angoff themselves contributed essays to the magazine again.

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

While it has not been generally considered positive to be regarded as a reactionary it has been adopted as a self-description by some such as H. L. Mencken, Gerald Warner of Craigenmaddie and John Lukacs.

" Lowell's satires and use of dialect were an inspiration for writers like Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, H. L. Mencken, and Ring Lardner.

One of the giants of the academy in his time, Robert Underwood Johnson, casts a decades-long shadow in his one-man war against encroaching modernism, blackballing such writers as H. L. Mencken, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and T. S. Eliot ( before his emigration to England disqualified him for full membership ).

In response to the attacks of Mencken and his imitators, Southern writers were provoked to a reassertion of Southern uniqueness and a deeper exploration of the theme of Southern identity.

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

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.

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.

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.

After eight issues, Mencken and Nathan considered their initial $ 500 investment to have been sufficiently profitable, and they sold the magazine to its publishers, Eltinge Warner and Eugene Crow for $ 12, 500.

Mencken praised women, though he believed they should remain in the background of industry and politics.

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.

Early on during the 1920s Prohibition in the United States, the American journalist and student of American English H. L. Mencken noted :" The origin of the ... Tom-Collins ... remains to be established ; the historians of alcoholism, like the philologists, have neglected them.

" Mencken found Valentino to be likable and gentlemanly and wrote sympathetically of him in an article published in the Baltimore Sun a week after Valentino's death:

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.

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

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

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.

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.

That provoked Mencken himself to visit Boston and sell Chase himself a copy, the better to be arrested for the cameras.

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

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.

After Raulston ruled against the admission of scientific testimony, Mencken left Dayton, declaring in his last dispatch, " All that remains of the great cause of the State of Tennessee against the infidel Scopes is the formal business of bumping off the defendant.

O ' Rourke is the H. L. Mencken Research Fellow at the Cato Institute and is a regular correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly, The American Spectator, and The Weekly Standard, and frequent panelist on National Public Radio's game show Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me !.

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.

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 ".

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:

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:

* Mencken Fellow P. J. O ' Rourke is the bestselling author of Parliament of Whores, All the Trouble in the World, and other books.

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.

He is an adjunct scholar of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and H. L. Mencken Club President.

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