Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...granted to Mrs. Eaton the privilege oi visiting her progeny unless she attempted to "instill her atheistic and communistic beliefs" in their minds. Decided the Advisory Master: "She frankly states that she no longer considers herself a Christian She looks on all religion as useless and entertains the deepest contempt for that of her husband...
...chief sourcerer himself expressed disapproval of the measures. None the less, a large portion of the responsibility rests squarely upon his shoulders. Extravagant and wasteful administration spending over a period of years created supreme contempt for balanced budgets, and a non-chalance about a few billions more added to the public debt. Yet last year the President, in one of his few truly statesmenlike messages, rallied the opponents of the bonus raid to his side and preserved enough congressional discipline to sustain his veto. Even then his career was sadly reminiscent of the parable concerning a rake's progress. This...
Harvard could show its contempt for Curleyism in no better way than by the appointment of Dr. Payson Smith to the Graduate School of Education. Even aside from his country-wide reputation as an educator, the story of his banishment from the State House at the instigation of the present Governor of the Commonwealth should be proof enough of the man's worth...
...another half turn of the Government on its firm pivot and the Prime Minister ended his speech with a clear conscience exactly where he and the Conservative Party had stood not only before the election but long before, namely in an attitude of handsome lip service to and handsome contempt for the League of Nations. In his closing sentence Party Leader Baldwin, with his party whips cracking smartly, begged: "I would say to this House: I ask at any rate that all those who call themselves supporters of mine give me their confidence tonight...
...Paramount and Fenway this week offer a balanced diet of harrowing melodrama and rich, lush humor, both clearly above the Hollywood average. And that is praise of a sort, for we do not consider the Hollywood average a butt for sneers of contempt...