H L Mencken

• A Saturnalia of Bunk

  H L Mencken, S T Joshi•BOOK•Saturnalia of Bunk•2017

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• A Second Mencken Chrestomathy

  H L Mencken•BOOK•A Second Mencken Chrestomathy•2006

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  With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the language of the free lunch counter, Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken's death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work,…

• Notas acerca de la técnica cinematográfica

  Open Access•H L Mencken•ARTICLE•Revista Mexicana de Ciencias…•1991

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• Dreiser-Mencken Letters

  Fred Hobson, Theodore Dreiser et al.•ARTICLE•South Atlantic Review•1988

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• "Ich Kuss die Hand"

  William H Nolte, H L Mencken et al.•ARTICLE•South Atlantic Review•1987

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• On Hollywood. And Valentino

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•Cinema Journal•1970

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  Having made of late, after a longish hiatus, two separate attempts to sit through movie shows, I can only report that the so-called art of the film still eludes me. I was not chased out either time by the low intellectual content of the pictures on display. For one thing, I am anything but intellectual in my tastes, and for another thing the films I saw were not noticeably deficient in that direction. The ideas in them were simply the common and …

• Willa Cather and Her Critics

  Open Access•James G Murray, H L Mencken et al.•ARTICLE•American Quarterly•1968•Citada por: 7

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• The American Language

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•British Journal of Educational…•1964

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• The American Language

  Raven I Mcdavid, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•Language•1949

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• Some Opprobrious Nicknames

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1949•Citada por: 1

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• Verbs New and Old

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1948

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• American Names

  H L Mencken, Henry Gannett•ARTICLE•The Mississippi Valley Historical…•1948

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  A reprint of the 2d ed. of the author's The origin of certain place names in the United States, published 1905 as Bulletin no. 258 of the U.S. Geological Survey

• The forum

  James H McBurney, H L Mencken et al.•ARTICLE•Quarterly Journal of Speech•1948

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• What the People of American Towns Call Themselves

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1948

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• American Street Names

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1948•Citada por: 2

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• The American Language

  Allen R Matthews, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•The William and Mary Quarterly•1948

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• The American Language

  Raven I Mcdavid, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•Language•1947

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• Names for Americans

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1947•Citada por: 2

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  q fiHE RIGHT of Americans to be so called is frequently challenged, l especially in Latin-America, but so far no plausible substitute has been devised. Columbiamn, which was launched in a pioneer American play, 'The Politician Outwitted,' in 1789, never gained any favor save among poets and dramatists. In 1807 one of the Hartford wits, Joel Barlow, gave it a lift by publishing 'The Columbiad,' but by the War of 1812 even Columbiad was reduced to …

• Etymological Notes

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1947

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• Verbs New and Old

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1946

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• Supplement I

  William Cabell Greet, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Literature•1946

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• Bulletin on 'Hon

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1946

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• The Current Suffixes

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1946

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• The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755

  H L Mencken, Dewitt T Starnes et al.•ARTICLE•The William and Mary Quarterly•1946

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  This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to ha…

• The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche

  H L Mencken

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• Willa Cather and Her Critics

  Open Access•James G Murray, H L Mencken et al.•ARTICLE•American Quarterly•1968•Citada por: 7

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• Designations for Colored Folk

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1944•Citada por: 3

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  WX THEN THE New York Times announced in an editorial on March 7, 1930, that it would capitalize the word Negro thereafter, there were loud hosannahs from the Aframerican intelligentsia, for (with an exception to be noted) they seemed to be convinced that lifting the word out of lower case would also give a leg up to its bearers. The decision of the Times was inspired, according to its own account, by Major Robert Russa Moton, then principal of Tu…

• American Street Names

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1948•Citada por: 2

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• Names for Americans

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1947•Citada por: 2

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  q fiHE RIGHT of Americans to be so called is frequently challenged, l especially in Latin-America, but so far no plausible substitute has been devised. Columbiamn, which was launched in a pioneer American play, 'The Politician Outwitted,' in 1789, never gained any favor save among poets and dramatists. In 1807 one of the Hartford wits, Joel Barlow, gave it a lift by publishing 'The Columbiad,' but by the War of 1812 even Columbiad was reduced to …

• American Speech,' 1925-1945 the Founders Look Back

  H L Mencken, Louise Pound et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•1945•Citada por: 2

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• Some Opprobrious Nicknames

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1949•Citada por: 1

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• American Profanity

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1944•Citada por: 1

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• War Words in England

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1944•Citada por: 1

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  T HE ENGLISH have a great many newspaper columnists like our own, and at the beginning of World War II those of the Walter Winchell moiety devoted themselves assiduously to coining new war words for civilian use. A few such deliberate coinages gained popularity, for example, macon and Lord Haw-Haw, both invented by William Hickey of the London Daily Express.' Even the austere editorial writers of the London Times and the Manchester Guardian took …

• The American Democrat

  Robert E Spiller, James Fenimore Cooper et al.•ARTICLE•American Literature•1932

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• Notes and Quaries

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1933

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• Notes on the New Deal

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•Current History•1934

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  Essay| August 01 1934 Notes on the New Deal H. L. Mencken* H. L. Mencken* *Mr, Mencken, until recently the editor of The American Mercury, is the author a series of volumes on literary criticism entitled Prejudices and a considerable number of works on literature, politics and things in general, the most recently published being Treatise on Right and Wrong (New York: Knopf). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Schola…

• O. K.,' 1840

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1942

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• Designations for Colored Folk

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1944•Citada por: 3

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  WX THEN THE New York Times announced in an editorial on March 7, 1930, that it would capitalize the word Negro thereafter, there were loud hosannahs from the Aframerican intelligentsia, for (with an exception to be noted) they seemed to be convinced that lifting the word out of lower case would also give a leg up to its bearers. The decision of the Times was inspired, according to its own account, by Major Robert Russa Moton, then principal of Tu…

• American Profanity

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1944•Citada por: 1

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• War Words in England

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1944•Citada por: 1

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  T HE ENGLISH have a great many newspaper columnists like our own, and at the beginning of World War II those of the Walter Winchell moiety devoted themselves assiduously to coining new war words for civilian use. A few such deliberate coinages gained popularity, for example, macon and Lord Haw-Haw, both invented by William Hickey of the London Daily Express.' Even the austere editorial writers of the London Times and the Manchester Guardian took …

• American Speech,' 1925-1945 the Founders Look Back

  H L Mencken, Louise Pound et al.•ARTICLE•American Speech•1945•Citada por: 2

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• Verbs New and Old

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1946

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• Supplement I

  William Cabell Greet, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Literature•1946

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• Bulletin on 'Hon

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1946

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• The Current Suffixes

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1946

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• The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755

  H L Mencken, Dewitt T Starnes et al.•ARTICLE•The William and Mary Quarterly•1946

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  This study by Starnes and Noyes was immediately recognized as a unique and pioneering work of scholarship and has long been the standard work on the emergence and early flowering of English lexicography. Within the last 20 years we have been witnessing a remarkable scholarly interest in the study of dictionary-making and the role played by dictionaries in the transmission and preservation of knowledge and learning. It is therefore essential to ha…

• The American Language

  Raven I Mcdavid, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•Language•1947

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• Names for Americans

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1947•Citada por: 2

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  q fiHE RIGHT of Americans to be so called is frequently challenged, l especially in Latin-America, but so far no plausible substitute has been devised. Columbiamn, which was launched in a pioneer American play, 'The Politician Outwitted,' in 1789, never gained any favor save among poets and dramatists. In 1807 one of the Hartford wits, Joel Barlow, gave it a lift by publishing 'The Columbiad,' but by the War of 1812 even Columbiad was reduced to …

• Etymological Notes

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1947

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• Verbs New and Old

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1948

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• American Names

  H L Mencken, Henry Gannett•ARTICLE•The Mississippi Valley Historical…•1948

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  A reprint of the 2d ed. of the author's The origin of certain place names in the United States, published 1905 as Bulletin no. 258 of the U.S. Geological Survey

• The forum

  James H McBurney, H L Mencken et al.•ARTICLE•Quarterly Journal of Speech•1948

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• What the People of American Towns Call Themselves

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1948

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• American Street Names

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1948•Citada por: 2

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• The American Language

  Allen R Matthews, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•The William and Mary Quarterly•1948

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• The American Language

  Raven I Mcdavid, H L Mencken•ARTICLE•Language•1949

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• Some Opprobrious Nicknames

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•American Speech•1949•Citada por: 1

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• The American Language

  H L Mencken•ARTICLE•British Journal of Educational…•1964

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