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    the H. L. Mencken House. His papers were distributed among various city and university libraries, with the largest collection held in the Mencken Room...
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  • The H. L. Mencken House was the home of Baltimore Sun journalist and author Henry Louis Mencken, who lived here from 1883 until his death in 1956. The...
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  • in January 1919. Asbury achieved first notoriety with a story that H. L. Mencken published in his magazine, The American Mercury, in 1926. The story...
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  • magazine 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...
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    The American Language (category Books by H. L. Mencken)
    published in 1919, is a book written by H. L. Mencken about the English language as spoken in the United States. Mencken was inspired by "the argot of the colored...
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  • to general use in North America and the United Kingdom. According to H. L. Mencken, the phrase mass media was used as early as 1923 in the United States...
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    December 12, 2021 – via Newspapers.com Mencken, H. L. (1989), Fecher, Charles A. (ed.), The Diary of H. L. Mencken, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, ISBN 0-394-56877-X...
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    by H. L. Mencken (1918). New York: Alfred A. Knopf. § 2. Nietzsche, Friedrich. [1895] 1924. The Antichrist (2nd ed.), translated by H. L. Mencken (1918)...
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    include singular references, particularly amongst non-Southerners. H. L. Mencken, in recognizing the typical plural reference of y'all, acknowledged...
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    term "Bible Belt" was by American journalist and social commentator H. L. Mencken, who in 1924 wrote in the Chicago Daily Tribune: "The old game, I suspect...
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