Baltimore Sun journalist H.L. Mencken was no prophet, but that didn’t stop him from attempting to prophesy. On one occasion, a century ago, he predicted a moral disaster for the country.

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This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. H.L. Mencken, Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir, edited by Fred Hobson, Vincent Fitzpatrick, and Bradford Jacobs (Johns ...

I thank Vincent Fitzpatrick for photocopies of Mencken’s notes on his ailments (1912-48), on file in the Mencken Collection, Enoch Pratt Free Library. Hobson identifies “The Philosophy of Friedrich ...

Reporter H. L. Mencken dubbed Dayton "monkeytown." Reed says that the only monkeys she met were just "passing through." The monkey trial also inspired music — humorous songs like "You Can't Make ...

“Since one o’clock this morning Prohibition has been a fugitive in the remote quagmires of the Bible Belt,” wrote H.L. Mencken in June 1932 for Baltimore’s Evening Sun. In a matter of ...

“No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public,” according to a quote widely attributed to H.L. Mencken. Country star Zach Bryan evidently gets that, and proved it ...

"I think it's a shame the way they are prosecuting her... It's a dirty shame." — H.L. Mencken, editor, American Mercury. Bryan won the battle, and John Scopes was found guilty of teaching evolution.

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