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Fri. December 05, 2008

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"The human suffering that it [Prohibition] entailed," wrote HL Mencken, journalism's bard of the age, "must have been a fair match for that of the Black ...
It lasted, as journalist HL Mencken would later write, "an elapsed time of 12 years, 10 months and 19 days. It seems almost a geologic epoch while it was ...

He can be reached at kewing@hkis.edu.hk. Notes on Democracy by HL Mencken. Dissident Books (October 15, 2008). ISBN-10: 0977378810. Price US$14.95, 208 pages.
Most of them have never heard of Henry Louis "HL" Mencken, the curmudgeon newspaperman of the old Baltimore Sun, but I usually give them one of his famous ...
To paraphrase HL Mencken, the solution was neat, plausible, and wrong. No market is truly illiquid. Last summer, Merrill Lynch unloaded a bunch of bad debt ...
The Center for science in the Public Interest (the self-described "food police") have elevated puritanism--defined by HL Mencken as "The haunting fear that ...
As journalist HL Mencken observed, "There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong." And yet I sense that there is ...
HL Mencken once said "Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ...
I know you will not dare to publish this, fearing to offend what HL Mencken called the 'great booboisie' of readers. Another is more favorable, ...
... a longtime media critic, must surely be familiar with: this classic line from HL Mencken, the legendary last-century journalist and critic.
HL Mencken on Franklin D Roosevelt: "If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he surely needs, he would begin ...
HL Mencken on Franklin D Roosevelt: "If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he surely needs, he would begin ...
But she does cheerfully and effectively shoot down many of the misleading spoilsport stereotypes spread by critics such as HL Mencken, who once remarked ...
... Edward VIII, Charlie Chaplin, HL Mencken, Adlai Stevenson and Bertrand Russell - and wrote about them giving his personal insights. ...
HL Mencken "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." - Thomas Reed. ...
HL Mencken (1880 - 1956) History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is ...
(Psalm 9:2); I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. (HL Mencken)
On June 22, 1936, two months after I was born, HL Mencken wrote the following in The Baltimore Sun: "The insurance of small deposits, even if the insurance ...
John Derbyshire recounts an interesting experience at the HL Mencken Club: Well, so there I was sitting down to dinner on the first evening of this ...
... through video-conferencing from Islamabad reminds me of HL Mencken's line that "Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince". ...
... Bertram Cates and EK Hornbeck correspond to the historical figures of William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, John Scopes and HL Mencken, respectively. ...
It was the humorist and philosopher HL Mencken who famously said: "Nobody ever went broke by under-estimating public taste." After the affair of the flying ...
DH Lawrence, Thomas Mann, george orwell, Gwyn Griffin and - moving to the Americans - Willa Cather, Edith Wharton, Ring Lardner, HL Mencken. ...
"The biggest story since the resurrection," said HL Mencken. The San Jose kidnapping was one of the most sensational crime cases of the bleak days of the ...
To paraphrase HL Mencken, no one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American people. And to paraphrase hoaxer Gordon Hull, there'sa sucker ...
Take HL Mencken's American mercury, which captured the gaudy, gorgeous America of the 1920s and 30s. It was edited largely from Mencken's Baltimore home and ...
He knew HL Mencken, Lauren Bacall, Jawaharlal Nehru, Duke Ellington. He played jazz on the piano. He lived in Fifth Avenue, overlooking the Park. ...
HL Mencken "One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation." Thomas Reed "A government ...
HL Mencken Join us for the December 2008 meeting of the Kansas City Data Management Association chapter (KC DAMA). This presentation provides a systematic ...
The quintessential journalist, as far as I'm concerned, was HL Mencken -- a man who took no guff, had no stars in his eyes, was cynical, and vicious with ...
HL Mencken, usually a great journalist, covered the trial in the worst possible way, making friends with the simple-minded believers down there, ...
"Soon enough," writes Beam, "the Great Books were synonymous with boosterism, Babbittry, and HL Mencken's benighted boobocracy." Many bought the books; ...
HL Mencken famously said that "no one in this world, so far as I know . . . has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence" of the American people. ...
By Robert Bryce, Slate HL Mencken once remarked that there is a "well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. ...
HL Mencken, a self-absorbed curmudgeon, wouldn't have thought much of my efforts. He looked down his nose at everybody, especially those not to the manor ...
During that period, Quillen was sometimes compared to Mark Twain and regarded as the South's answer to HL Mencken. Hammond's book offers a fascinatingly ...
Like that other lay linguist HL Mencken, who beat the pros at their own game with "The American Language," he figures that if amateurs are qualified to ...
Luminaries such as HL Mencken helped shape the city's rich cultural heritage. These days, Baltimore is widely known as one of America's most blighted cities ...

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