L. Mencken, who became an early mentor and whose cigar-waving directness and contrariness appealed to him.
L. Mencken and such other lampooners of cant and inauthenticity as Dorothy Parker and W.C.
Mencken understood the American people better than they understood themselves, and he eloquently shared his understanding with unsparing wit.
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L. Mencken did not write to inform, educate, and improve his fellow man, a project he would have deemed insane.
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L. Mencken had a field day portraying the self-righteous sobersides of the prairies (who often drank homemade corn liquor behind the barn at night).
Also, it could be interpreted as an attempt at a whitewash, which is something that Denton scorns in others with the ferocity of Mencken and Winchell.
When I went to the bible of American English, Mencken's famous 1921 book The American Language, and looked up "quite", the master had written the very opposite definition.
L. Mencken, movie director Mike Nichols, New York Times publisher Adolph Ochs, pharmaceutical entrepreneur Charles Pfizer, architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, slugger Babe Ruth, cartoonist Charles M.
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L. Mencken was to the previous several: our curmudgeon-in-chief.
Sadly, Mencken was the last person who did that about US politics (just as an example) and absolutely no one who wrote that way today would ever find a job in the industry.
L. Mencken is based on the tenet that politics as practiced by boobus Americanus should be viewed as an act of nature, to be dealt with as one would a stormy day.
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