81. H. L. Mencken Room And Collection - Humanities Department - Enoch Pratt Free Lib A biography and description of Mencken s impact on American culture, as well asa description of the permanent archive of his writings at the Enoch Pratt http://www.pratt.lib.md.us/slrc/hum/mencken.html

Enoch Pratt Free Library H. L. Mencken Room and Collection Central Library / State Library Resource Center So Mencken introduces a long, loud, and loquacious life. Henry Louis Mencken was born on September 12,1880, of German-American stock. His paternal grandfather had settled, as a cigar maker, in the German section of Baltimore in 1848, and his father eventually started his own tobacco firm, which did a comfortable business and provided a comfortable income. When Henry, the eldest of three boys and a girl, was three, the family moved to 1524 Hollins Street, a neighborhood which in the eighties was still almost rural. Mencken continued to live there all his life in spite of allurements to move to New York, which he termed "a third-rate Babylon," preferring to remain in and of "the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay." As a boy, Mencken attended F. Knapp's Institute, and later the Polytechnic. Mencken's own story of his life, up to his twelfth year, in Happy Days is a delightful account of bourgeois boyhood and Baltimore in the 1880's. By precedent destined for the tobacco business, by temperament Mencken was destined for the business of ideas. He had "blooded" his first book in 1888. His next experience with print, Huckleberry Finn, he called "probably the most stupendous event of my whole life" and adds that "thus launched upon the career of a bookworm, I presently began to reach out right and left for more fodder. When the Enoch Pratt Free Library opened a branch in Hollins Street... I was still a shade too young to be excited, but I had a card before I was nine... I began to inhabit a world that was two-thirds letterpress and only one-third trees, fields, streets and people." During his high school days Mencken claimed to be "one of the most assiduous customers that the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore has had in its whole history."

82. Quote From H.L. Mencken (1880 - 1956): quote from HL Mencken (1880 1956) This eerily prophetic quote is fromauthor and editor HL Mencken (1880 - 1956). As Democracy is perfected, http://www.ecolivingcenter.com/board/politics/messages/30.html

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84. H. L. Mencken - The Prostitute, The Police, And H. L. Mencken, And Other Stories Today in Literature presents HL Mencken The Prostitute, the Police, HL Mencken (1880 - 1956). The Prostitute, the Police, and HL Mencken http://www.todayinliterature.com/stories.asp?Event_Date=4/5/1926

85. Cool Quiz! Trivia, Quizzes, Puzzles, Jokes, Useless Knowledge, FUN! HL Henry Louis Mencken (1880 1956). A bachelor s vitue depends upon hisalertness; a married man s depends upon his wife s. - HL Henry Louis Mencken http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/quotes/quote.asp?dir=Mencken

86. Cool Quiz! Trivia, Quizzes, Puzzles, Jokes, Useless Knowledge, FUN! HL Henry Louis Mencken (1880 1956). Faith may be defined briefly as anillogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/quotes/quote.asp?dir=Mencken&qfile=2

87. H. L. Mencken / Biography HL Mencken Early on, Mencken published studies of George Bernard Shaw (1905)and Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), both of whom he admired. From 1914 to 1923, http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/menckenbio.html

H. L. Mencken Editor, writer; born in Baltimore, Md. He left school after his father's death (1899) to become a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald, later serving as drama critic, city editor, and then managing editor of the Baltimore Evening Herald . Soon after the Herald folded in 1906, he joined the Baltimore Sun; he remained associated with the Sun as editor, columnist, or contributor for most of his career, but he also wrote for many other publications. Early on, Mencken published studies of George Bernard Shaw (1905) and Friedrich Nietzsche (1908), both of whom he admired. From 1914 to 1923, with George Jean Nathan he coedited a satirical magazine, The Smart Set ; in 1924 he and Nathan cofounded the American Mercury, a cultural magazine for "a civilized minority," which he coedited for nine years. Social rebels admired Mencken's clever, iconoclastic attacks on the middle-class "booboisie," prudery, and organized religion and politics. As a reviewer and critic he lambasted second-rate authors and championed such writers as Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis , and Joseph Conrad . Many of his essays and reviews were collected in six volumes of Prejudices (191927). In a different vein, his detailed study

88. Mencken Quotes - Mencken Quotations, Mencken Sayings HL Mencken (1880 1956). The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar HL Mencken (1880 - 1956). Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit http://home.att.net/~quotations/mencken.html

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90. Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) The Introduction to The Impossible HL Mencken A Collection of His Best Re HL Menken 1880 1956 Philippa (203.59.201.212) 194218 08/04/03 (2) http://www.9types.com/movieboard/messages/13285.html

Boards Main Movie Care Chat ... HOME Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) Follow Ups Post Followup Posted by Jan den Breejen (145.53.141.105) on August 04, 2003 at 13:22:32: I would tend to think he looks a bit like an intellectual variant of Arnold Schwarzeneggers character style; mildly self-kicking, high profile, energetic, productive, taking leadership in a joking way. Anybody would think another Oldham Style would fit better? JDB case text citation: Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) by Gibbons Burke Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it. The Introduction to The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Collection of His Best Newspaper Stories, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers which relates Mencken's manner while reporting on the presidential conventions: No other entertainment gave him greater pleasure than reporting from the conventions; nor did anyone appreciate his efforts more than Mencken himself. One reporter, peering through Mencken's window late at night after one rally, recalled watching him at work alone in his hotel room, pounding out copy on a typewriter propped on a desk. He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article. A cigar jammed in the side of Mencken's mouth completes the image. Rare is the picture of him without one in a hand, his mouth, or a nearby ashtray. (His father was the owner of Baltimore's Mencken Cigar Company, which provided Mencken his first gainful employment, which he ditched not long after his father's death to become a cub reporter.) Here's Mencken's assessment of life in the United States:

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Boards Main Movie Care Chat ... HOME Re: Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) Follow Ups Post Followup Posted by ali (212.138.47.20) on October 02, 2003 at 01:40:19: In Reply to: Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) posted by Jan den Breejen (145.53.141.105) on August 04, 2003 at 13:22:32: > I would tend to think he looks a bit like an intellectual variant of Arnold Schwarzeneggers character style; mildly self-kicking, high profile, energetic, productive, taking leadership in a joking way. > Anybody would think another Oldham Style would fit better? > JDB > case text citation: > Henry Louis Mencken (1880 - 1956) > by Gibbons Burke > Mencken's writing is endearing because of its wit, its crisp style, and the obvious delight he takes in it. The Introduction to The Impossible H.L. Mencken: A Collection of His Best Newspaper Stories, edited by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers which relates Mencken's manner while reporting on the presidential conventions: > No other entertainment gave him greater pleasure than reporting from the conventions; nor did anyone appreciate his efforts more than Mencken himself. One reporter, peering through Mencken's window late at night after one rally, recalled watching him at work alone in his hotel room, pounding out copy on a typewriter propped on a desk. He would type a few sentences, read them, slap his thigh, toss his head back, and roar with laughter. Then he would type some more lines, guffaw, and so on until the end of the article. > A cigar jammed in the side of Mencken's mouth completes the image. Rare is the picture of him without one in a hand, his mouth, or a nearby ashtray. (His father was the owner of Baltimore's Mencken Cigar Company, which provided Mencken his first gainful employment, which he ditched not long after his father's death to become a cub reporter.) Here's Mencken's assessment of life in the United States:

92. Research Guide Writing Mencken HL Henry Louis 1880 1956 (main heading is subdivided). Mencken HL HenryLouis 1880 1956Bibliography Mencken HL Henry Louis 1880 1956Biography http://www.wcsu.edu/library/gd_writing.html

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93. H. L. Mencken Mencken, HL (Henry Louis), 18801956Photographs New dictionary of quotations /HL Mencken QUOTATIONSDICTIONARIES http://libweb.princeton.edu/libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/mencken.html

H. L. Mencken Collection Introduction Collection Description Series Description Box/Folder Listing Introduction The H. L. Mencken Collection consists primarily of microfilm and transcripts of H. L. Mencken's letters, compiled by Princeton University historian and librarian Julian Boyd for his proposed book of Mencken's letters. In addition to copies of letters by Mencken to a variety of correspondents, the collection includes a number of original letters by Mencken, as well as Boyd's correspondence with those people possessing letters from Mencken and various articles of Menckenia. Range of Collection Dates: Range of Collection Bulk Dates: Size: 12.5 linear feet (15 archival boxes, 4 customized boxes, 5 card files, 23 reels of microfilm) Provenance: The H. L. Mencken Collection began in 1944 with a gift from George Stewart of six TLsS to the Princeton Library. In the same year, the Library purchased 288 Mencken letters to Ernest Boyd and numerous others to Madeline Boyd. The bulk of the collection, including the typed transcripts of Mencken's correspondence, were acquired for the Library by Julian Boyd and added to by him over several decades. August Mencken, Edward Naumberg, Elbridge Colby, Nat Weiner, and others also contributed many Mencken letters. Restrictions: None.

94. I Can T Help But Laugh At Ole HL Mencken - UNITEDSTATES.com I Can t Help But Laugh at Ole HL Mencken HL Mencken US editor (1880 1956)But then again, few Liberals are normal. ThusSpokethMe http://www.perspectives.com/forums/forum4/53507.html

US: Click 'new topic' to start a discussion, or the graphic to see other subjects. -rules- Red Cross spammers may be sued. -FAQ- Donations U.S. Search ... Home Search by username Not logged in - Login Register Message Board forum: politics ... UnitedStates.com DOMESTIC politics chat I Can't Help But Laugh at Ole H.L. Mencken Moderated by: Spaminhater KC Bionca New Topic ... Print Author Post ThusSpokethMe Member Joined: Mon Feb 7th, 2005 Location: Go F*ck Yourself, Mr. Cheney! Posts: Posted: Thu Jul 28th, 2005 04:41 am Quote Reply "The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." macarion Member Joined: Fri Apr 8th, 2005 Location: Handing Out A Confection Of Venom Posts: Posted: Thu Jul 28th, 2005 04:46 am Quote Reply ThusSpokethMe Member Joined: Mon Feb 7th, 2005

95. Citations De Henry Louis Mencken : Journaliste Et Critique Américain consiste à essayer de prouver l incroyable en faisant appel à http://atheisme.free.fr/Citations/Mencken.htm

Citations par auteur > H. L. Mencken Citations par auteurs Henry Louis Mencken Journaliste et critique américain "Le malheur de l'homme et la cause de presque toutes ses calamités est sa capacité prodigieuse de croire à l'impossible." (Henry Louis Mencken / 1880-1956 / Défense des femmes / 1918) "La métaphysique consiste à essayer de prouver l'incroyable en faisant appel à l'inintelligible." (Henry Louis Mencken / 1880-1956 / Minority Report / 1956) "Le puritanisme est la crainte épouvantable que quelqu'un puisse être heureux quelque part." (Henry Louis Mencken / 1880-1956 / American Mercury) "Il est maintenant presque autorisé pour une catholique de recourir aux mathématiques pour éviter d'être enceinte, mais il lui est encore interdit de se servir de la physique et de la chimie." (Henry Louis Mencken / 1880-1956 / Notebooks) "L'église est l'endroit où des gens qui ne sont jamais allés au paradis le vendent à d'autres qui n'iront jamais." (Henry Louis Mencken / 1880-1956) "Toutes les erreurs et les incompétences du Créateur atteignent leur apogée dans l'homme." (Henry Louis Mencken / 1880-1956) "Le progrès est le processus par lequel l'homme a supprimé les moustaches, l'appendice et Dieu."

96. Henry Louis Mencken - Books, Journals, Articles @ The Questia Online Library Mencken, HL (Henry Louis Mencken)meng kn, men , 1880 1956, American editor theyfounded the American Mercury in 1924, and Mencken was its sole editor from http://www.questia.com/search/henry-louis-mencken

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97. NukeWorker Softball Debut the plain folks of the land will reach their heart s desire at last and theWhite House will be adorned by a downright moron. HL Mencken (1880 1956) http://www.nukeworker.com/forum/index.php?topic=5581.msg34480;topicseen

98. Quotes Of The Day For 12 September 2004 - Henry Louis Mencken Quotes of the Day for 12 September 2004 HL Mencken. Henry Louis Mencken wasborn at Baltimore, All from Henry Louis Mencken, 1880 - 1956 http://www.qotd.org/archive/2004/09/12.html

September Issues Index Quotes of the Day for 12 September 2004 - H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken was born at Baltimore, Maryland on this day in 1880. The son of a cigar merchant, he worked for his father's company but gave it up for journalism when his father died, although he never gave up cigars. Normally I try to mix up the quotes from year to year, but there are a few who will be celebrated on their birthday every year because of their marvelously quotable legacy. It's a short list that includes Shaw, Voltaire, Shakespeare, Jefferson, and today, Mencken. A man may be a fool and not know it - but not if he is married. The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. Legend: a lie that has attained the dignity of age. Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.

99. Quotes Of The Day For 12 September 2003 - Henry Louis Mencken Quotes of the Day for 12 September 2003 HL Mencken. Henry Louis Mencken wasborn at Baltimore on this day in All from Henry Lewis Mencken, 1880 - 1956 http://www.qotd.org/archive/2003/09/12.html

September Issues Index Quotes of the Day for 12 September 2003 - H. L. Mencken Henry Louis Mencken was born at Baltimore on this day in 1880. The son of a cigar merchant, he worked for his father's company but gave it up for journalism when his father died, although he never gave up cigars. His clear writing, insight, and wit puts him in the same class with Shaw and Voltaire, and for the same reasons a great many of his quotes have been saved. No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

100. Mencken (H. L.) Mencken Ses Mémoires (The Days of HL Mencken, 3 vol., 1940-1943) évoquent avec http://www.proverbes-citations.com/mencken.htm

Mencken Henry Louis (1880-1956). L'écrivain germano-américain Henry Louis Mencken vécut toute son existence à Baltimore, où il se tailla rapidement une réputation d'humoriste iconoclaste grâce à ses articles des Sunpapers entre 1906 et 1948. Il dirigea également deux mensuels : The Smart Set (1914-1923, avec George Jean Nathan) et The American Mercury Prejudices (1919-1927) rassemblent ses essais de journaliste et proposent à une Amérique encore provinciale des modèles étrangers, en même temps qu'ils l'encouragent à s'explorer elle-même et à critiquer sa propre insuffisance culturelle. Les cibles favorites de Mencken sont ce qu'il nomme l' Americano , ou Boobus Americanus , autrement dit le citoyen crédule, patriote, sectaire, prétentieux, gauche et borné ; et encore le clergé hypocrite, le nivellement démocratique, la médiocrité provinciale. D'une caricature féroce des États-Unis, l'écrivain excepte une prétendue "minorité civilisée", tolérante et cultivée. Par germanophilie et anglophobie, il s'est élevé contre Woodrow Wilson et F.D. Roosevelt et a été le champion véhément du conservatisme isolationniste. Son dynamisme, sa personnalité tranchée, la verve de son style lui ont assuré un public important entre 1920 et 1930, décennie à laquelle on l'associe souvent. Ses Mémoires ( The Days of H.L. Mencken

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