westbrook pegler should not be forgotten. while his Scopes coverage was uninspiring, he's penned some killer phrases. Memorable Peglerisms: the first is from his days as a sports writer, when he wrote of the fur-clad Yale fans who "rose as one raccoon"; the second is his characterization of the the '20s as "The Era of Wonderful Nonsense".
oh man - "the Booboisie" - Mencken's word for the ignorant middle class. I wonder if i'm boobois.
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