Crossword-Solution: MENCKEN
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| "Monkey Trial" reporter | 1 answer |
| "Newspaper Days" author | 1 answer |
| Author of "Minority Report." | 1 answer |
| Baltimore curmudgeon | 1 answer |
| Critic H. L. | 1 answer |
| Founders of the | 1 answer |
| He wrote "The American Language." | 1 answer |
| The Sage of Baltimore | 1 answer |
| Who once described puritanism as "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy" | 1 answer |
| Who said "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin" | 1 answer |
| Who said "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier" | 1 answer |
| Writer H. L. ___ | 1 answer |
| Writer known as "The Sage of Baltimore" | 1 answer |
| CAT AND THE CURMUDGEON, THE AUTHOR | 10 answers |
| CURMUDGEON WORD | 10 answers |
| Author of the quote | 17 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EATRE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with MENCKEN (5)
They were young American sociologists, young English realists, Russian horrorists; Anatole France, Rolland, Nexo, Wells, Shaw, Key, Edgar Lee Masters, Theodore Dreiser, Sherwood Anderson, Henry Mencken, and all the other subversive philosophers and artists whom women were consulting everywhere, in batik-curtained studios in New York, in Kansas farmhouses, San Francisco drawing-rooms, Alabama schools for negroes.
Mencken, who delivered a discourse ‘De Campani odio in Germanos.’ The hatred of the Germans was strengthened by the conduct of Hadrian VI., and still more by the conduct of the troops at the sack of Rome (Gregorovius, viii.
Mencken is, perhaps, the outstanding victim of this depravity of indifference which more and more characterizes the enemy.
Mencken pauses for a moment out of breath casting about slyly for fresher and deadlier weapons and lo! the Bugaboo with a gentle smile reaches out and embraces him and plants the kiss of love on both his cheeks, strokes his hair wistfully, and invites him to sit on the front porch.
Whereupon the argument is that an era of enlightenment has set in, that this same Mencken and his contemporary throat-cutters have vanquished the Bugaboo, and that, as a result, a spirit of high intellectual life prevails through the land.
Quotes with MENCKEN (3)
Both [P. T.] Barnum and H. L. Mencken are said to have made the depressing observation that no one ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the American public. The remark has worldwide application. But the lack is not in intelligence, which is in plentiful supply; rather, the scarce commodity is systematic training in critical thinking.
The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it — they are powerless to deny it while still claiming to be rational. In principle, it is the ideas themselves that are, as we say, compelling, but their champions are not always averse to helping the ideas along with tactics of verbal dominance, among them intimidation (“Clearly . . .”), threat (“It would be unscientific to . . .”), authority (“As Popper sho…
If we think of the novel and the epic... The difference lies in the fact that the important thing about the epic is a hero--a man who is a pattern for all men. While, as Mencken pointed out, the essence of most novels lies in the breaking down of a man, in the degeneration of character.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (1951–2018).