Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grew up to be a fish peddler. He went to the University of Washington Law School, got himself elected president of the student body, behaved so obstreperously that fellow students clipped his pate, dumped him in Lake Washington. Marion Zioncheck began his legal career by being fined $25 for contempt of court after calling a witness a "scab." Later he successfully defended his mother on kidnapping charges. In 1932 Lawyer Zioncheck persuaded the Democratic voters of Washington's First Congressional District to send him to Washington. By last week Representative Zioncheck had piled up such a record of outlandish...
...taking a recess too," shouted Zioncheck, breaking for the door. Policemen collared him, threw him into the pen. Judge Casey, reappearing, slapped on fines of $25 for speeding, $20 for contempt of court. For two hours Representative Zioncheck posed for photographers making faces, clambering up the bars, poking out his hat to beg for money for his fines. Loudly he declared that he would not pay a cent. Loudly he demanded that Speaker Byrns get him out of jail on grounds of Congressional immunity. At the Capitol, Democratic leaders put their heads together, quickly decided that fighting with policemen, speeding...
...judge of its own subpoenas, is not subject to interference from the courts. There might be, Mr. Harris suggested, a "very unseemly and unfortunate conflict" if the Court enjoined Western Union from delivering the telegrams and the Senate demanded the telegrams under threat of jailing Western Union officials for contempt...
...search for her King Charles's head. Author Stern shakes several likely candidates out of her grab-bag. One is a childhood desire to be included in the glorious goings-on of a large but mythical family of Rectory Children. One is a sturdy feminine contempt for what she dubs the Peter Pannery of the typical Englishman. And one is the Dreyfus Case, which fascinated her not only because she was a Jew but because she was a young contemporary of its long-drawn-out events. When the three lines of her association-autobiography have crossed, the King Charles...
...tiny truck farm at Scotch Plains. Refusing a State condemnation commission's award of $800, he had served six months in jail for malicious mischief, defied an injunction ordering him to cease tampering with the wires, resisted repeated attempts to serve him with a warrant for contempt of court. But on the last of those attempts, last autumn, a party of deputy sheriffs had killed his wife Sophie. Now four of the deputies were on trial for manslaughter...