Word: arguments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...willy-nilly, in either a protracted naval war on the Atlantic or the Pacific. He cites President Roosevelt's palpable navalism, as creating the sort of moral and material tension that eventuates in war. Lastly, he points out that the fact that no one wants a war is no argument against its inevitability, since public morality is lower than personal morality on such a point, and national morality is lowest...
...divisionals are upon us, and spring nights have come, and with them a vague longing for things probably never to be realized, I am prompted to give voice to a conclusion which is more or less the fruit of four years of academic exploration, and which I offer for argument...
...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 & Wrong is written tiredly, its Menckenian tricksiness a little dingy from much wear. Carelessness sometimes trips him into such howlers as this: "Nero, as Tacitus tells us, illuminated...
...These figures are in themselves illustrative of the futility of the argument so frequently advanced that the bootlegger who pays no taxes must be done away with by underselling him," purred Brother Seton...
...dividend tax does not apply to regular sales. Total taxes applicable to Mr. Porter's argument amounted to $10.80 per case. What was yet to be explained was why Mr. Porter's good whiskey was retailing for at least $42 per case...