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H.L. Mencken
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  • Years later, a Columbus newspaperman, on whose press our paper was printed, told me that H. L. Mencken had picked up this chirp out of me for The American Mercury as sample thinking from the Bible Belt.†  (source)
  • I came finally to the editorial page and saw an article dealing with one H. L. Mencken.†  (source)
  • He ambled up to Verona's room, sat on her maidenly blue and white bed, humming and grunting in a solid-citizen manner as he examined her books: Conrad's "Rescue," a volume strangely named "Figures of Earth," poetry (quite irregular poetry, Babbitt thought) by Vachel Lindsay, and essays by H. L. Mencken—highly improper essays, making fun of the church and all the decencies.†  (source)
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  • Years later, a Columbus newspaperman, on whose press our paper was printed, told me that H. L. Mencken had picked up this chirp out of me for The American Mercury as sample thinking from the Bible Belt.†  (source)
  • Now, what were the names of books written by H. L. Mencken?†  (source)
  • A book by H. L. Mencken.†  (source)
  • Through Uncle Harold I first heard of H. L. Mencken.†  (source)
  • You mean to tell me you never heard of H. L. Mencken?†  (source)
  • H. L. Mencken.†  (source)
  • Who's H. L. Mencken?†  (source)
  • To me he was the man playing Parcheesi and drinking cocoa in a two-room flat so close to H. L. Mencken, the man who infected me with the notion that there might be worse things to do with life than spend it in telling tales.†  (source)
  • So little attention had been paid to the language of America's black population that in the 1920s H. L. Mencken could seriously claim, "The Negro dialect, as we know it today, seems to have been formulated by the song writers for minstrel shows.†  (source)
  • I finally wrote what I thought would be a foolproof note: Dear Madam: Will you please let this nigger boy—I used the word "nigger" to make the librarian feel that I could not possibly be the author of the note—have some books by H. L. Mencken?†  (source)
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