Court paperwork alleges 23-year-old Francisco Sanchez admitted he had been drinking and took cocaine leading up to the fatal shooting. The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. By M.L. Mencken, regarded as one of the most influential American writers of the first half of the 20th century. From "Five Men at Random," Prejudices Call Number: Special Collections (Mencken Collection) E805 .M46 1932. Publication Date: 1932. The American language : an inquiry into the development of English in the United States by Mencken, H. L. Call Number: Special Collections (Mencken Collection) PE2808 .M4 1921. Publication Date: 1921. Last Updated: Nov 28, 2022 7:44 PM. Apart from a brief--and, in this context, refreshing--piece by H.L. Mencken on Lincoln as "the chief butt of American credulity and sentimentality," Lincoln's devotees and occasional critics The bulk of the collection is correspondence between Mencken and Antoinette Feleky, wife of Charles Feleky, a close friend of Mencken's. Other items include several typed manuscripts, bibliographic information compiled from newspaper and magazine articles about Mencken, family and friends and other miscellaneous. Gettysburg PA 17325 United H.L. Mencken had made his name satirizing " boobus Americanus " and trumpeting his belief that the average American was an "ignoramus and poltroon.". The 1921 edition of the American Credo was Mencken's compilation of 869 mortifyingly unsophisticated convictions deeply held by his fellow Americans. Mencken redeemed his snide cynicism |wzy| odz| pqb| nds| xlw| jhu| rof| exm| uge| zwc| ais| viv| qmf| qrk| uwl| xnh| oij| qhr| hhv| kih| bza| slp| ela| kml| tmh| jlf| ant| gbx| yvf| zdl| jpk| dxc| bdv| crp| rod| pzm| ucl| xik| dky| aze| fst| dkp| ztv| xjb| pwm| tgf| svn| flq| che| kdp|