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Definition of Mencken
1. Noun. United States journalist and literary critic (1880-1956).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mencken
Literary usage of Mencken
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sidelights on American Literature by Fred Lewis Pattee (1922)
"The theory is good: it explains Mencken. And then I found that Mencken is forty-two
... Then I did what I should have done at the start: I read Mencken, ..."
2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"Mencken, In Defense of Women, Knopf. Mencken, Philosophy of Nietzsche, Knopf.
... Mencken, Little Book in С Major, Knopf. Mencken & Le Monte, Men Versus the ..."
3. The Works of William Robertson ...: To which is Prefixed, an Account of His by William Robertson, Dugald Stewart (1817)
"Mencken Script. rer. Germ. vol. iii. p. 1067- IT is not necessary for illustrating
what is contained in the text, that I should describe the manner in which ..."
4. The Profession of Journalism: A Collection of Articles on Newspaper Editing by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer (1918)
"... MORALS BY HL Mencken ASPIRING, toward the end of my nonage, to the black robes
of a dramatic critic, I took counsel with an ancient whose service went ..."
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