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April 7, 1933 - HL Mencken's Favorite Day

He could hoist a schooner of beer then at the end of Prohibition. "In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished." The Calamity of Appomattox, September 1930

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Monkey trial

Here's a web page about the Mencken comments on the Scopes trial.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/menk.htm
Posted by Noel Humphreys at 6:49 PM

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