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  • August Mencken (February 18, 1889 – May 19, 1967) was an American civil engineer and author. He was the younger brother of Henry Louis Mencken and the...
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    Henry Louis Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English...
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  • August Mencken Sr. (1854–1899) was an American cigar magnate who founded Aug. Mencken & Bro. in 1873 with a starting capital of $23 of his own money and...
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  • Mencken is a surname of German origin. Notable people with the surname include: August Mencken Jr. (1889–1967), American civil engineer and author August...
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    Sara Haardt (category H. L. Mencken)
    central to John Barton Wolgamot's notorious book-length poem, In Sara Mencken, Christ and Beethoven there were men and women (1944), recorded by the...
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  • The American Mercury (category Articles with unsourced statements from August 2017)
    published from 1924 to 1981. It was founded as the brainchild of H. L. Mencken and drama critic George Jean Nathan. The magazine featured writing by some...
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  • George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (category Books by H. L. Mencken)
    Bernard Shaw: His Plays (1905) is H. L. Mencken's interpretation of G. Bernard Shaw's plays, in which Mencken overwhelmingly embraced the man who was...
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    thereof continues to be debated in the modern day. Newspaper writer H. L. Mencken called the kidnapping and trial "the biggest story since the Resurrection"...
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    Jillette, and usually does not speak during performances. Teller is a H.L. Mencken Fellow at the Cato Institute. Teller was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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    Cooke, Alistair, The Vintage Mencken, Vintage Books, pp. 161–167. Mencken, Heathen Days, pp. 280–87. "Mencken Epithets Rouse Dayton's Ire", The New...
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    Jonathan Swift. Vonnegut credited American journalist and critic H. L. Mencken for inspiring him to become a journalist. The book Pity the Reader: On...
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    William Frank Buckley Jr. (born William Francis Buckley; November 24, 1925 – February 27, 2008) was an American conservative writer, public intellectual...
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    Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. OMRI (/əˈliːtoʊ/ ə-LEE-toh; born April 1, 1950) is an American jurist who serves as an associate justice of the Supreme Court...
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    good poems. He sold one, “Atthan Dances,” to H. L. Mencken for Smart Set magazine. He sent Mencken the lyrics to a second song, “Egon's Song,” asking:...
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald (category Use American English from August 2021)
    1925, p. 11. Wilson 1952, p. 28; Mencken 1925, p. 9. Wilson 1952, p. 28. Stagg 1925, p. 9; Mencken 1925, p. 9. Mencken 1925, p. 9. Wilson 1952, p. 32....
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    work as a reporter for The Baltimore Sun, where he met journalist H. L. Mencken, who became his friend and mentor, and also became the subject of Manchester's...
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    by such disparate 20th-century American figures as famed writer H. L. Mencken, baseball stars Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, and by the Nobel Prize-winning...
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    Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Jr. (/fɔːrbz/; born July 18, 1947) is an American publishing executive and politician who is the editor-in-chief of Forbes, a...
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  • magnate Frank Munsey. The Herald's most notable writer and editor was H. L. Mencken, who described his experiences in Newspaper Days (1941), the second volume...
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    Alliance. Archived from the original on August 7, 2016. Retrieved June 16, 2016. Watts, James D. Jr. (August 19, 2010). "A concert with an attitude: Sean...
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