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...Spain retains her nonpermanent seat and has not given notice of withdrawal from the League, but ostentatiously registered contempt for the Council by sending a mere diplomatic underling to occupy the Spanish nonpermanent seat during the Council sessions a fortnight ago. (TIME, June...
...Contempt. If the Chicago Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
...loves his enemies and while he subdues them he makes them happy. He acts the general, the Briton, the conqueror and the Christian." From his own correspondence, however, it appears that the Indians were not among the enemies loved and made happy by Amherst. He held them in supreme contempt. He directed a subordinate: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." Bluff, arrogant, forthright, Amherst is thus seen as a soldier of quite modern scientific...
...seen gushing from a hole in a canvas drop during the course of a spectacular and dripping melodrama. In many details of illusion the twentieth century harks back to the resources of the now unpopular nineteenth, no phase of which has received more liberal and often ill-informed contempt from professors and students of the drama than its stage. The years from Sheridan to Robertson have been considered the absolute zero of the drama itself; when the Professor ends his lectures on Sheridan, he casts a long glance forward to 1865 and Robertson, dons his seven-league critical boots...
...bench. That same night he gets a backful of buckshot from Peck Bradley, a murderer out on bail. Religion picks up. Bloodhounds bay for three days and nights in the back hills and Bradley is brought in to jail, crusted with mud but full of bravado. Sharing his contempt for the law and seething with Old Testament, the community grows ominously quiet. Abner suggests a plan; feet tramp, a rope is knotted and what was Peck Bradley twists slowly in the air near his ambush...