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...condemn me there will be blood." Whereupon the judges raised his sentence to three years for contempt of court...
...bogeymen that once seemed giants. Treatise on Right & Wrong, a companion piece to Treatise on the Gods, is Iconoclast Mencken's first book in four years and the first fruits of his retirement (last autumn) from the editorship of The American Mercury (TIME, Oct. 16). With a sturdy contempt for philosophers, metaphysicians and theologians ("They are specialists in penetrating the impenetrable, or they are nothing"), Mencken tramps into their jealously guarded sanctuaries and lays about him manfully with his 19th Century rationalist flail. Like its predecessor, Treatise on Right & Wrong purports to be an historical and comparative outline...
...alone have dared to point out the dire need for air defense of London. You have muzzled others who have deplored this shameful neglect. You have treated my patriotic gesture with a contempt such as no other government would have been guilty of toward a patriot...
...DEALERS-Unofficial Observer-Simon & Schuster ($2.75). A capital ship for an ocean trip Was the Walloping Windowblind! No gale that blew dismayed her crew Or troubled the captain's mind; The man at the wheel was taught to feel Contempt for the wildest blow, Tho' it often appeared when the weather had cleared, That he'd been in his bunk below. -Charles Edward Carryl...
After throwing the Courier-Journal's close-mouthed Acting Editor Vance Armentrout into jail for an hour, a special House Committee tried him last week for contempt, fined him $25 and costs. Said Editor Armentrout: "I am not guilty of contempt and I expect to find my vindication in the courts. . . . The Attorney General will have to sue me which will give me an opportunity for justice. This action was a 'face'-saving maneuver for the first committee which threw me in jail without a trial . . . and utterly without authority...