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...proclamation published on August 13, 1660, which condemns two of Milton's political pamphlets as containing 'treasonable passages" and "impious endeavors to justifle the horrid and unmatchable murther" of King Charles I, may also be seen...
...preferred the savory smell of roast cutlets to the odors of boiled cabbage,* who sat in a burning bush or popped out from behind the rocks" (TIME, Jan. 24). Edward J. Murphy, devout Roman Catholic, prosecuted for the Crown with vigor, called Atheist Sterry's writings "scandalous, impious, blasphemous, profane and indecent." Judge Coatsworth, Sunday School Superintendent, charged the jury: "Nothing is more sacred to us than our religion. . . . We look upon the Bible as the basis of every good law in our country." The jury, devout men all, took only 25 minutes to pronounce Mr. Sterry guilty. They...
...link together the first meeting of a CRIMSON board and tonight's gathering in the Sanetum. The intervening fifty-two years have been filled with journalistic alarums and excursions for generations of editors. Financial, catastrophes, tiffs with athletic teams, brushes with the authorities, and open warfare with impious editors of the Lampoon have all lent color to the CRIMSON'S lengthening past...
...false gods everywhere-an impious Mullet; a stertorous Turtle, like an island; a Siren, scaled in emerald, with a pearl loin-rope and breasts of mother-of-pearl. She told Sturly that Beauty was God, but vanished when he asked her to reconcile Life with Death. (The wreck of a Corsican mail packet heightened this central paradox; for the long pilgrim Sharks came and a Cuttlefish lifted a lady's dress, seeking his dinner...
...trembling hypocrite, who dusts off his fetish of personal liberty to aid him in regaining the right to drink, although this same idol lay untended and forgotten in the days of war when all men's minds must belong, willy-nilly, to their country. The New Republic, equally impious, destroys his hypothesis that high taxes restrict individual beneficence toward education. On all sides Doctor Butler's pet theories are bombarded with havoc. But evidently he has found a bomb-proof shelter, from which he mocks his adversaries. From the solid materials of scholarship and reflection, he has built an edifice...