21. H. L. Mencken Quotes Quotations on education, poetry, and other subjects collected by a Lock Haven University professor. http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/mencken.htm

H. L. MENCKEN QUOTES Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) U. S. Editor and Critic. Some of these quotes are selected from Minority Report, H. L. Mencken's Notebooks , Knopf, 1956. These have numbers in square brackets corresponding to the numbers in the book. Use your browser's `find' or `search' tools to jump to keywords. EDUCATION [43] The effort to educate the uneducable is hopeless. Schools for adults soon become kindergartens for adults. The pupils are quite unable to take in the education proper to their years. The gogues thus have to provide them with amusement, just as children of four are provided with amusement in kindergartens. The hope is that they will somehow learn to think as an accidental by-product of playing, but that hope is vain. The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be...next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation? New York Evening Mail , 23 Jan. 1918. [181] Consider [the pedagogue] in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and, in large part, untrue. His whole professional activity is circumscribed by the prejudices, vanities and avarices of his university trustees, i.e., a committee of soap-boilers, nail manufacturers, bank-directors and politicians. The moment he offends these vermin he is undone. He cannot so much as think aloud without running a risk of having them fan his pantaloons.

22. Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956) Summary | BookRags.com Mencken, H. L. (18801956). Mencken, H. L. (1880-1956) summary with 5 pages of encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/research/mencken-h-l-1880-1956-sjpc-03/

23. Facts About Mencken, H. L., As Discussed In Britannica Compton's Encyclopedia Me Facts about Mencken, H. L., (1880–1956). The Sage of Baltimore, as H.L. Mencken was called, was a newspaper columnist and essayist whose outrageous wit and biting sarcasm made http://www.britannica.com/facts/11/945577/

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24. American Writers: H.L. Mencken Biography, description of the place of his The American Language, tips for teachers, trivia. http://www.americanwriters.org/writers/mencken.asp

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26. H L Mencken MENCKEN H L. Lundberg,F. The Rich and the SuperRich. 1969 (336-7, 686) MacArthur,J. Second Front. 1992 (94) Mitgang,H. Dangerous Dossiers. 1988 (176-8) http://www.namebase.org/main2/H-L-Mencken.html

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27. W.S. Gilbert Eulogy By H.L. Mencken Mencken s eulogy of William S. Gilbert. Copy hosted by the Gilbert and Sullivan archive. http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/html/gilbert_by_mencken.html

Gilbert and Sullivan Archive The Passing of Gilbert by H. L. Mencken From the Baltimore Evening Sun, May 30, 1911. How THE COMMON American conception of the English, as a stodgy and humorless folk, could so long withstand the fact of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas must ever remain one of the mysteries of international misunderstanding. Here, indeed, was wit that Aristophanes might have fathered; here was humor that Rabelais might have been proud to own. And yet it was the work of a thorough and unmitigated Englishman of William Schwenck Gilbert, to wit a man born in the heart of London, and one who seldom passed, in all his 75 years, out of hearing of Bow Bells. Gilbert died yesterday perhaps 15 years too late. His career really ended in 1896, when he and Sir Arthur Sullivan wrote "The Grand Duke", their last joint work. They had quarreled before and made up. Now they quarreled for good. Sullivan, searching about for a new partner, found that there was but one Gilbert. Basil Hood, Comyns Carr and Arthur Wing Pinero tried their hands and failed. And Gilbert himself, seeking a new Sullivan, learned that a new Sullivan was not be found. Edward German came nearest but "The Emerald Isle" was still miles from "The Mikado." The Gilbert and Sullivan partnership, in truth, was absolutely unique. One looks in vain for parallels. Beaumont and Fletcher, Meilhac and Halevy, the Goncourts these come to mind, but differences at once appear. Sullivan, without Gilbert, seemed to lose the gift of melody, and Gilbert, without Sullivan was parted from that exquisite humor which made him, even above Mark Twain, the merrymaker of his generation. The two men, working together for 15 years, found it impossible, after their separation, to work alone. Sullivan, cast adrift, took to the writing of oratorios and presently died. Gilbert settled down as a London magistrate and convulsed the world no longer.

28. Mencken, H. L. | Define Mencken, H. L. At Dictionary.com Cultural Dictionary Mencken, H. L. definition A twentiethcentury American writer known for his works of satire , mainly essays . Mencken mocked American society for its http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mencken, h. l.?qsrc=2446

29. Constitution For The New Deal A satirical version of U.S. constitution which Mencken deemed more suitable to the era of the New Deal, first printed in The American Mercury 41. http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/mencken1.html

Please Support LewRockwell.com By Patronizing Our Advertisers Constitution for the New Deal by H. L. Mencken THIS SATIRICAL PIECE FIRST APPEARED IN The American Mercury,, 41 (June 1937), 129-36, and was reprinted in condensed form by The Reader's Digest, 31 (July 1937), 27-29. In order to indicate what reached the widest audience, the condensed version appears here. The principal cause of the uproar in Washington is a conflict between the swift- moving idealism of the New Deal and the unyielding hunkerousness of the Constitution of 1788. What is needed, obviously, is a wholly new Constitution, drawn up with enough boldness and imagination to cover the whole program of the More Abundant Life, now and hereafter. That is what I presume to offer here. The Constitution that follows is not my invention, and in more than. one detail I have unhappy doubts of its wisdom. But I believe that it sets forth with reasonable accuracy the plan of government that the More Abundant Life wizards have sought to substitute for the plan of the Fathers. They have themselves argued at one time or another, by word or deed, for everything contained herein: PREAMBLE We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish social justice, draw the fangs of privilege, effect the redistribution of property, remove the burden of liberty from ourselves and our posterity, and insure the continuance of the New Deal, do ordain and establish this Constitution.

30. H. L. Mencken Quotes - The Quotations Page All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken

Quotation Search by keyword or author: Home Weblog Quotes of the Day Motivational ... Read books online at our other site: The Literature Page Quotations by Author H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956) US editor [more author details] Showing quotations 1 to 30 of 59 total A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. H. L. Mencken - More quotations on: [ Celebrities A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken - More quotations on: [ Cynicism A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. H. L. Mencken A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. H. L. Mencken - More quotations on: [ Laws A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. H. L. Mencken - More quotations on: [ Poetry All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. H. L. Mencken - More quotations on: [ Lies All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. H. L. Mencken - More quotations on: [ Journalism All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

31. Henry Louis Mencken, 1880-1956 Prejudices: First Series. HTML and SGML full text of H.L. Mencken s 1919 work, along with title page illustration. Sponsored by the Documenting the American South project at the University of North Carolina. http://docsouth.unc.edu/southlit/mencken/menu.html

32. H.L. Mencken's Legacy | News & Features | Cigar Aficionado Article about Mencken s childhood in the family cigar factory, and his contributions to American culture. http://www.cigaraficionado.com/Cigar/CA_Archives/CA_Show_Article/0,2322,783,00.h

Log In Register Search News Celebrities Cigar Stars Cuba ... Events document.write(''); Home Also in this issue: Miscellaneous Editor's Note: A Late Night With Fidel ... More from this Issue H.L. Mencken's Legacy Marion Elizabeth Rodgers Published in: June 1, 1994 Published Summer 1994 By His Own Rules H. L. Mencken, A Cigar Always in Hand, Was the Most Influential Commentator of his Time by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers The boy was Henry Louis Mencken. If his father had not died, he might not have become what Alistair Cooke has called "the most volcanic newspaperman this country has ever known." His father's death, Mencken later said, was perhaps the "luck-iest" thing that ever happened to him. The three-and-a-half years he spent working at his father's cigar factory were so unhappy, he never mentioned them in his memoirs. If he had remained there any longer, it would have been, he confided to poet Edgar Lee Masters, "probably to my permanent damage." Instead, his rise was meteoric. By 1903, at age 23, he was city editor of the Baltimore Morning Herald . By 1905, he was managing editor, and the following year, editor in chief, the youngest in the United States to hold that position at a major paper. After the

33. Mencken, H.L. Summary | BookRags.com Mencken, H.L.. Mencken, H.L. summary with encyclopedia entries, research information, and more. http://www.bookrags.com/eb/mencken-hl-eb/

34. Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub Describes Mencken s hoax which asserted that no bathtub existed in the White House prior to Millard Fillmore s administration. http://www.sniggle.net/bathtub.php

In the New York Evening Mail A Neglected Anniversary in toto and without mentioning my begetting of them, began to labor them in their dull, indignant way. They crossed the dreadful wastes of the North Atlantic, and were discussed horribly by English uplifters and German professors. Finally, they got into the standard works of reference, and began to be taught to the young. Wendy McElroy, in The Bathtub, Mencken, and War Curtis D. MacDougall, in his 1958 edition of the book Hoaxes gives a chronology, which he confesses is surely very incomplete, and which I summarize and update somewhat below: December 1917 Evening Mail May 1926 Mencken confesses to the hoax in his column June 1926 The Boston Herald July 1926 Mencken publishes a second confession. October 1926 magazine is based on the phony Mencken story. December 1926 The Chicago Evening American March 1927 Col. W.G. Archer of the National Trade Extension Bureau of the Plumbing and Heating Industry uses the story in his address in Clearfield, Pennsylvania. July 1927 John Finley, chief editorial writer for the New York

35. Mencken, H. L. Mencken, H. L. Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2004. Read Mencken, H. L. at Questia library. http://www.questia.com/read/101258304

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36. Article | First Things A review of three biographies by George Weigel in First Things. http://www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=4045

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38. Great Historical Writings - H. L. Mencken Features columns on the Scopes Trial and Mark Twain. Also links to an extensive quotation collection. http://www.positiveatheism.org/tochmenk.htm

and modern works of historical significance) Biographies, Tributes, Quotes Book-Length Works Miscellaneous Articles Chapman Cohen ... Joseph McCabe H. L. Mencken The Murray-O'Hair Family Thomas Paine Bertrand Russell Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Voltaire On the Internet See the Big List of Quotes H. L. Mencken Coverage of The Scopes Trial Homo Neanderthalensis (June 29, 1925) Sickening Doubts About Publicity (June 29, 1925) Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (July 10, 1925) Trial as Religious Orgy (July 11, 1925) Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (July 13, 1925) Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (July 14, 1925) Law and Freedom (July 15, 1925) Fair Trial Beyond Ken (July 16, 1925) Malone the Victor (July 17, 1925) Genesis Triumphant (July 18, 1925) Tennessee in the Frying Pan (July 20, 1925) Bryan (July 27, 1925) Aftermath (September 14, 1925) Darrow vs. Bryan (Associated Press Coverage) Mark Twain's Americanism (November 1, 1917) Note on the Gettysburg Address [off site] H. L. Mencken by Gore Vidal (1991) Positive Atheism's Big List of H. L. Mencken Quotations editor@positiveatheism.org

39. Ken Lopez Bookseller: MENCKEN, H.L. - A Second Mencken Chrestomathy NY, Knopf, 1995. Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition of this collection, which was prepared by the author and annotated by him shortly before he had a massive stroke in http://lopezbooks.com/item/5352/

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40. In Defense Of Women By H. L. Mencken - Project Gutenberg E-text of Mencken s 1918 book. http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1270

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