Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slatternly housekeeper named Maia, four dogs, a secret hoard of gold, a deep contempt for himself and his hypocritical colleagues, bitter memories of his wife and of the day he lost her, of when he once entered a crowded room. saw her talking with another man, and felt that people were smiling...
...Bingham observes, the fault lies with college presidents who have sat by, content to watch their institutions catapult to fame behind the artillery of big time football brigades. President Conant has declared his contempt for "professional teams maneuvering behind collegiate banners", and has proposed an endowment policy to rid Harvard's sports of their dependence on gate receipts. But unfortunately an endowment fund large enough to handle the A.A.A. annual $400,000 budget seems pitifully remote. Mean-while Harvard is at the mercy of other colleges whose standards may vary with the wind...
...then freedom of thought, discussion, and organization must have its first hold in the universities. Otherwise such as has marred Dudley Hall's reputation, puerile as they are and indicative of only a small percentage of the commuting body, have no proper function here and serve only to bring contempt and scorn on the instigators...
...manship, a brass-conscienced destroyer of good government. Early in the campaign, Chairman Farley plaintively inquired:"We're both in the same racket. Why does he take digs at me?"Since then he has treated Chairman Hamilton to the ultimate political insult of silence, ignoring him with the contempt of a St. Bernard for a yapping Pekingese. Only when the Republican Chairman backed up his Vice-Presidential Nominee on the subject of banks and life insurance last fortnight did Boss Farley forget himself and roar:"Chairman Hamilton's statement is as ridiculous as other statements he has made...
...very few highly literate and exceptionally inquisitive South Carolinians know who Joseph Warren ("Tieless Joe") Tolbert is. Those who do recognize this unkempt, unshaven oldster from Ninety Six as the Republican leader of the most overwhelmingly Democratic State in the Union, regard him with political scorn and social contempt. To most decent whites he is guilty of South Carolina's supreme sin: trafficking with Negroes for political purposes. Nevertheless, in one day last week "Tieless Joe" Tolbert and his black-&-whites turned a trick the like of which it takes the State's Democrats more than two months...