Mr. Henry Mencken is the worst of all scoffers; that Mr. Sherwood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sinclair Lewis - Nobel Lecture] Reference

One day he ran across an editorial denouncing H.L. Mencken with one short sentence, “Mencken is a fool.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-10-01] Reference

To paraphrase Mencken, this solution is neat, plausible, and wrong.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reason Magazine - Hit & Run] Reference

To paraphrase Mencken, the common people deserve to get it good and hard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference

Wow, Mencken was a major prophet worthy of Nostradamus.    From Wordnik.com.  [NRCC Sinks $7.8 Million In One Day Into 30 Races] Reference

But perhaps, like Mencken, I'm being overly pessimistic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Karen Kwiatkowski: Cowards in Congress] Reference

But the sad fact is, Mencken's disciples are not Mencken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ink-Stained Riches] Reference

You kept in touch with Mencken by telephone or by letter?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Finally, the pitfall Mencken warned about: becoming august.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kerry Catches On, Waiting for Press To Declare Comeback] Reference

Uh oh, I'm turning into a wanna be H.L. Mencken ... gotta go!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edwards SC Ad: I'm Running On Behalf of The Working Man And Woman] Reference

He was totally hipped on Mencken, knew quite a lot about him.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Strange City]

I think that improved it for nearly everybody except Mencken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Mencken also contributed, and he apparently liked what I wrote.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

After that, Mencken and I were friendly and he suggested to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Much of the time we have no idea what Mencken is shouting about.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephemera in Full] Reference

I think Mencken had a good deal to do with my being asked by the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Thought Mencken referred to intelligence in that quote, not taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hannity's New TV Show Bestows A Weekly "Enemy Of The State" Award] Reference

I was influenced by Mencken a good deal; I probably wrote more like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

What Shenkman does not do is chortle, Mencken-like, about stupidity.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of Rational Voters] Reference

Mencken (1880 – 1956), one of America's great wits, would chuckle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The VAT Masquerade] Reference

COULTER: I think I am the right wing Mencken, the right wing Mark Twain.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 8, 2006] Reference

Well, Mencken was a sort of Jekyll and Hyde character, most people know.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Bring your bug spray and your portable Mencken: Newt is on the campaign trail.    From Wordnik.com.  [President Newt?] Reference

Yeah, as Mencken warned us, you can't underestimate our collective intelligence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought"] Reference

Would it be fair to say that the style of Dry Messiah was influenced by Mencken?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

I was asked to his home several times to meet various writers, including Mencken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

And yet, look back at what Mencken writes and see where he falls into obvious error.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to West Egg] Reference

Mencken admits that the pieces in "Prejudices: Second Series" (1920) are not original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephemera in Full] Reference

Mencken for suggestions and Couch invited me to write this book, which I agreed to do.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

Mencken continued such rewrites and regurgitations for an additional four "Prejudices.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephemera in Full] Reference

Mencken earlier than I did later, but it was in newspaper articles and things like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

There were about eight guests in Cabell's home and I met Mencken there for the first time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oral History Interview with Virginius Dabney, July 31, 1975. Interview A-0311-2. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference

As I say, Mencken was a superb reporter, and when he stuck to reporting he was an original.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ephemera in Full] Reference

For one thing, Mencken was an outrageously intemperate and outspoken anti-Semite and racist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin Ad Starring Ted Stevens Already Scrubbed From Palin's Campaign Website] Reference

That is putting it politely-Mencken in death provokes as much vitriol as he did while living.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ink-Stained Riches] Reference

H.L. Mencken was perfectly capable of being wrong and I can assure he was more often than not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Palin Ad Starring Ted Stevens Already Scrubbed From Palin's Campaign Website] Reference

But I don't agree with most of Mencken otherwise - he was an awful bigot, when it came down to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Focus Group: Pennsylvania Voters Are Suspicious Of Obama -- But Support Him Anyway] Reference