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From his father, fabulous Movie Pioneer Lewis J. ("L. J.") Selznick, who gave him a schoolboy allowance of $1,000 a week, Myron inherited a contempt for small sums of money ("peanuts" to Myron is anything under $5,000 a week), a feud with most of Father Selznick's contemporaries which is supposed to contribute to his professional zeal...
...burn up." In a publication ostensibly technical, aerophobic Editor Grey devoted whopping columns to his pet political peeves and peevish political pets. He was shrilly pro-Nazi, anti-French, abominated U. S.-made planes, roundly clapperclawed the British Air Ministry for buying them. A colorful penman with spectacular contempt for fact ("What's the good of that when you can invent your facts as you go along?"), führious Editor Grey perennially brewed bumpy weather in European air politics...
...this city to corrupt public officials, buy and sell legislation and traffic in the honor of government. We invoke Thy wrath upon little men in large places who stoop to canny shrewdness to thwart the people's will and reduce the business of public affairs to mistrust and contempt...
This was not all or even mostly a brave gesture of contempt for the schools of art represented. It was one more of Germany's ingenious efforts to get foreign exchange. Total value placed on the collection was about a quarter-million dollars. But after the hammer had fallen all one stifling hot day amid a quiet, correct and much photographed international crowd, Nazi sellers were greatly disappointed. Six pictures remained unsold and returns on the others totaled about...
...small group of analysts have seceded from the Freudian union. Some of them do not agree that men are bound by primeval, rigid instincts. Others hold that society inflicts more wounds upon personality than the sex instinct. For these rebels, orthodox Freudians, whose feelings run high, have nothing but contempt...