All posts tagged "Mencken"
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5.2KBusiness and LaborThe Vermont Country Store – Nine Surprising Facts
You can’t have missed the catalog for the Vermont Country Store in your mailbox, and you may well have visited one of...
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22.7K4ConnecticutThe Story of How Hebrew Almost Became the Official U.S. Language
Just after the American Revolution, an English essayist named William Gifford reported that some Americans planned to substitute Hebrew as the official language...
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18.4K22MassachusettsThe Puritans Ban Gambling and a Whole Lot of Other Things
The Puritans had barely arrived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony when they banned gambling. And then they banned a lot of other...
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7.3K12Business and LaborWas Fannie Farmer a Good Cook?
When Fannie Farmer approached Little, Brown & Co., to publish her cookbook in 1896, the company made her pay for printing the...
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6.6K11Arts and LeisureBanned in Boston No Longer: The Man Who Stood Up to the Censors
H.L. Mencken in 1926 fought back against the overzealous censorship that inspired the catchphrase ‘Banned in Boston.’ He did it by getting...
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