h.l. mencken

     

Journalist & essayist Henry Louis...

Trivia about h.l. mencken

  • Baltimore writer who coined the term “booboisie” & said Hoover was "a fat Coolidge"
  • American wit who said that "Puritanism was the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy"
  • "Bachelors know more about women", quipped this Baltimore sage, "If they didn't, they'd be married"
  • So you, a humble Baltimore writer, called Puritanism "The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
  • Henry Louis...
  • In 1925 this sage covered the Scopes Trial for the Baltimore Sun
  • This caustic critic & expert on "The American Language" was associated with The Baltimore Sun for over 40 years
  • Baltimore's Central Library has a room dedicated to this Baltimore Sun journalist & wit

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