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    Mencken in 1948 "Writings of H.L. Mencken" from C-SPAN's American Writers: A Journey Through History H. L. Mencken's collected journalism at the Archive...
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  • The H. L. Mencken House was the home of Baltimore Sun journalist and author Henry Louis Mencken, who lived here from 1883 until his death in 1956. The...
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    Teller (magician) (category Articles with hAudio microformats)
    Jillette, and usually does not speak during performances. Teller is a H.L. Mencken Fellow at the Cato Institute. Teller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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  • magazine published from 1924 to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by...
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  • written in 1914. The comedy failed even though it greatly impressed both H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan, and she continued to write. She followed up with...
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    Paul Gottfried (category Articles with hCards)
    Center (SPLC) has described him as a "far-right thinker". He founded the H.L. Mencken Club, which the SPLC considers a white nationalist group. Although noted...
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    2021. Mencken, H.L., "Sickening Doubts About Value of Publicity", The Baltimore Evening Sun, July 9, 1925. Edgar Kemler, The Irreverent Mr. Mencken (Boston:...
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    Disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson (category Articles with hCards)
    lying and that Aimee won’t be the only one mixed up in the dirty mess." HL. Mencken, who had been covering the case, also commented on the media, writing...
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    William Stewart Halsted (category Articles with hCards)
    arterial aneurysm surgery. H.L. Mencken considered Halsted the greatest physician of the whole Johns Hopkins group, and Mencken's praise of his achievements...
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    The American Language (category Books by H. L. Mencken)
    published in 1919, is a book written by H. L. Mencken about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored...
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    J. O'Rourke, H.L. Mencken research fellow Jim Powell, senior fellow Richard W. Rahn, senior fellow George Selgin, senior fellow Vernon L. Smith, senior...
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  • and editor recognized as the foremost authority on H. L. Mencken. Rodgers became interested in Mencken while researching Sara Haardt, who had attended Goucher...
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  • Ballard Jr. and Fred Tobias, which became a modest hit. Literary figure H. L. Mencken was arrested in Boston in 1926, after purposely selling a banned issue...
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  • Bathtub hoax (category H. L. Mencken)
    bathtub hoax was a famous hoax perpetrated by the American journalist H. L. Mencken involving the publication of a fictitious history of the bathtub. On...
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  • ending to give it the self-important stature implicit in its meaning." H. L. Mencken lampooned Harding's bloviate style as gamalielese, from his middle name...
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    found much sympathetic readership, especially in the United States. H.L. Mencken was one of the earliest and most influential American readers to recognise...
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    Theodore Dreiser (category Articles with hCards)
    ISBN 1847144578. Riggio, Thomas P. (1986). Dreiser-Mencken letters : the correspondence of Theodore Dreiser & H.L. Mencken, 1907-1945. Philadelphia: University of...
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    rubbernecking was coined in America in the 1890s to refer to tourists. H.L. Mencken said the word rubberneck is "almost a complete treatise on American psychology"...
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  • Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence. Translated by Kerr, Caroline V. Introduction by H.L. Mencken. New York: Boni & Liveright. ASIN B000HFOAGI. Analecta Laertiana (1870)...
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  • In Defense of Women (category Books by H. L. Mencken)
    In Defense of Women is H. L. Mencken's 1918 book on women and the relationship between the sexes. Some laud the book as progressive while others brand...
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  • Marion Bloom (category H. L. Mencken)
    In February 1914, she met H. L. Mencken in Washington, D.C. Shortly after this, the two became romantically involved. Mencken would travel to visit her...
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    ISBN 9781899344857. "Fathers I Have Known – H.L. Mencken, H. Allen Smith" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2004-12-13. Mencken, Henry Louis (1923). The American...
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  • correspondence between Richard Wagner and Friedrich Nietzsche (for which H. L. Mencken provided an introduction) and also of Wagner's letters relating to the...
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    Theodore Dreiser, Robinson Jeffers, Sinclair Lewis, Jack London, H. P. Lovecraft, H. L. Mencken, Upton Sinclair, and Clark Ashton Smith. In addition, Sterling...
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    Sara Haardt (category H. L. Mencken)
    Mayfield wrote extensively about Haardt's marriage to H. L. Mencken in her 1968 book The Constant Circle: H.L. Menken and His Friends. Despite Menken's reputation...
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  • is only one step further. The phrase inspired a celebrated bon mot by H.L. Mencken: "Tertullian is credited with the motto Credo quia absurdum—'I believe...
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  • Mary Dennett (category Articles with hCards)
    1996, p. 237. Mencken 1930, p. 254. H. L. Mencken, “The Literature of Sex,” The American Mercury, v. 8, no. 29 (May 1926) 127. H.L. Mencken, "The Smut-Snufflers...
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    John Derbyshire (category Articles with hCards)
    the H.L. Mencken Club, a far-right club formed by Paul Gottfried and Richard B. Spencer, and has spoken at the group several additional times. The H.L. Mencken...
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  • Steve Lopez (category Articles with hCards)
    arrest. Lopez has won numerous national journalism awards including the H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Ernie Pyle awards. As a four-time Pulitzer finalist,...
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    to work as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where he met journalist H. L. Mencken, who became his friend and mentor, and also became the subject of Manchester's...
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