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...form of architecture.' I think there is perhaps a great deal in that. In my own work I am inclined to adhere more to the conventional forms of meter and rhyme. I am proud to say that I am not one of those who thinks Tennyson beneath contempt or is bored at mention of the nineteenth century tury...
...Passed a bill offered by Senator Walsh to punish for contempt of court persons who leave the country and refuse to return to testify in court by confiscating their property to a value not greater than $100,000,* without debate or record vote. (Bill went to the House...
...facts developed in this investigation show that it was a wise precaution on the part of the Department to make a further investigation of the charges alleged by the Commission to exist. It now appears that, had the Department filed a citation for contempt when the report was received, it would have been wholly impossible to sustain the charges appearing therein...
Recent criticism of American literature has definitely approved the direction contemporary writers are taking. The evident appreciation of background by the younger men who have persisted in recording their contempt for American verse, civilization in the western world, is tending toward a social literature out of which that he no said quoi of greatness can only come. Dreisers and dos Passos, Lewises and their compeers are throwing the shafts of their wit into the obscurity of apparent dullness, are really, in short, lighting the stage of American letters...
...days later, the Chamber showed its contempt for the Fascist movement by according an ovation to Premier Poullet, and then rushing through legislation designed to cut down the period of compulsory military service in the Belgian Army from twelve months...