H. L. Mencken

noun

H(enry) L(ouis) 1880–1956, U.S. writer, editor, and critic.

Related forms

Menc·ke·ni·an

[meng-kee-nee-uh

n] , adjective, noun

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Mencken (ˈmɛŋkən)

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	H(enry) L(ouis). 1880--1956, US journalist and literary critic, noted for The American Language (1919): editor of the Smart Set and the American Mercury, which he founded (1924)

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"Two men live sixty-three years each. They meet face to face four times. One is superbly handsome, the finest flower of a civilization now vanished. The other is short and awkward both physically and in manner, the type of fellow (according to H.L. Mencken) who would say to you: "Meet the wife." Yet the society that one symbolizes is narrow and provincial, grooved, rooted, and the world of the other is wide, expanding, youthful, growing."

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