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...recognized instantly for the public enemy that he is, and disposed of out of hand." He speaks of Bolshevism and Fascism as "the new non-Euclidean theologies." Of the Catholic Church and its flock he writes jovially: "The whip it cracks over them is barbed with the fear of Hell, but the cracking is done with infinite discretion, and a fine understanding of psychology as she blows in the lower IQ brackets." But the necessities of an extended argument weigh heavily on Paragrapher Mencken's pen; much of the fire has gone out of his bluster. Treatise on Right...
...news of the sole survivor of another SCADTA crash in Colombia's jungles, see Green Hell under Aeronautics...
...done penance (by prayers, fasting and alms). Such indulgence as he is accorded is operative not for any future sins but only for those already committed and genuinely repented. Certain indulgences may work to the benefit of souls still in Purgatory, a place of temporary suffering distinct from Hell, where unrepentant sinners abide forever...
Critic Parker's initials, all he ever signed, gave him the nicknames of "Hard-to-Please" and "Hell-to-Pay." But he was seldom vitriolic. His reviews were famed chiefly for their length (1,250 words, at least), their ornate, old-fashioned sentences, their freshness and independence of viewpoint. Boston knew him for a sputtery, gnomelike person who wore a flowing cape for evening, carried a stout bamboo stick, shunned conversation. He did most of his writing between 3 and 5 a. m., always in longhand on yellow ruled paper. Afternoons saw him in his musty, little Transcript office...
...edge and over into the Bay. Scores drowned. The fire caught others and incinerated them in their tracks. In the early morning the Mayor got a message to the outside world: "The wind has subsided slightly. Through the darkness refugees are fleeing from death, abandoning their belongings. A living hell has been created...