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Bad Boy of Baltimore Left Indelible Mark on American Letters
Ten years after his death at 76, H L Mencken shaped American journalism and language. His satire sparked magazines like Double Dealer, inspired Hemingway and Faulkner, and provoked clashes such as the ban of a cemetery prostitute story. He coined nicknames like Home Boobiens and Boobus Americanus.
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Baltimore
Jack Kneece
H.L. Mencken
Ssencken
Cincinnati
Ohio
White House
Mencken
Siencken
Scopesey
Sage
Balti
Henry Louis Encken
Bega
Mead
Sahara
Bozart
South
Dixie
Albert Goldstein
Times- Picayune
New Orleans
Ernest Hemingway
William Faulkner
American Mercury
George Jean Nathan
Boston Watch and Ward Society
Boston
Harvard
America
Brimstone Corner
Sinclair Lewis
Babbitt