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Bookmark: Inscriptions tell their own stories
The first house I owned was quite small, but it came with a wonderfully mysterious basement. Among the treasures housed therein was a wringer washer, a green metal cabinet that opened with a deliciously coffin-like squeal and a collection of textbooks...Tags: Engineering, Science and Technology, Entertainment Events, Transportation, Travel
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Were they all arabbers?
The Baltimore SunI responded to a reader's query in 2007 about the peculiar Baltimore terms A-rab and Arabber for a street peddler or huckster, explaining that the term probably originated from the nineteenth-century term street arab, a homeless child living by his wits.... -
A photographic tour of Towson
Melissa Schehlein, a Towson native, walked the streets and byways of the Baltimore County seat in search of what was while documenting with her camera what is.
The result of her search was the recently published book, "Towson: Then and Now," a 96-page...Tags: Baltimore County, Horse (animal), Towson, Towson Commons, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland)
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Charles Adam Fecher
Charles Adam Fecher, a self-taught Baltimore scholar, author and editor who undertook the formidable task of editing the controversial diaries of H.L. Mencken, died Monday of respiratory failure at St. Agnes Hospital.
The longtime Govans and Rodgers...Tags: Religion and Belief, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Educational Development Corporation, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
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Praise from one Mencken scholar to another
Marion Elizabeth Rodgers' recent letter praising the work of Charles A. Fecher, the biographer and scholar of Henry Louis Mencken who died on January 16, was right on target. But it should also be noted that Ms. Rodgers is the author of the best and most... -
Who says Mencken would have hated speed cameras?
Giving the proceeds for traffic light and speed camera violators to charities is a good idea. Having these devices is a great challenge to speeders and DUI drivers who flout laws designed to protect all of us. I do not believe that H.L. Mencken would... -
Chan Lowe: Mitt Romney's concern for the very poor
And they accuse Barack Obama of not being able to speak without a TelePrompTer. Every time Mitt Romney goes even slightly off script, he utters inanities so maladroit that they almost sound like he spent time polishing them.
It’s actually...Tags: Mitt Romney, Interior Policy, Interior Policy, Gun Control, Same-Sex Marriage
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Opening of Mencken's papers 25 years after his death
It was H. L. Mencken's last party, and the invitation had been written more than 25 years earlier. I was among the invited guests at the Enoch Pratt Free Library on Cathedral Street to witness the opening of Mencken's final papers, which his will...Tags: Sage, Libraries, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Clarence Darrow, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Mencken found his match in biographer Charles Fecher
The legendary publisher Alfred A. Knopf was a man who valued excellence. For years he searched for someone to write a biography of his friend Henry Louis Mencken. In his opinion, no biography up to then, including that of William Manchester, was right....Tags: Career and Workplace, Labor Legislation, Biography (genre), Labor Legislation
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A toast to Baltimore's old breweries
"Back again, back again, we've got Franklin D. Roosevelt back again, since Roosevelt's been re-elected moonshine liquor's been corrected, we've got legal wine, whiskey, beer and gin." —Recorded by Bill Cox in 1936 Happy New Year! Oh, I'm sorry....Tags: New Year's Day, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Pratt Street, Great Baltimore Fire (1904), College Baseball
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The voice of reason
H.L. Mencken once observed that newspapers, by nature, are bellicose and do not speak in support of anyone or anything unless they absolutely can't help it. There are any number of public figures in Maryland and beyond who would attest to this.
But on...Tags: Diseases and Illnesses, Rush Limbaugh, Palliative Care, Talk Shows (genre), Fox News Channel (tv network)
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Terrapin, anyone? Happy birthday, H.L. Mencken
The Baltimore SunIt's Mencken's birthday, and everyone in the newsroom is starving for terrapin stew. And a beer. It took about three seconds to find some good Mencken writing on food and restaurants. He begins the essay "A Genial Restauranteur," from the collection...
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