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H.L. Mencken Collection at Bartleby.com |
 | | His politics bristles with pungent epithets; his whole history has been bedizened with tall talk; his fundamental institutions rest as much upon brilliant phrases as upon logical ideas. |
| | He began his journalistic career on the Baltimore Morning Herald, became editor of the Baltimore Evening Herald, and from 1906 until his death was on the staff of the Baltimore Sun or Evening Sun. |
| | From 1914 to 1923 he was coeditor of the Smart Set with George Jean Nathan; together they started the American Mercury in 1924, and Mencken was the sole editor from 1925 to 1933. |
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