Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...applying the term "greaser" to them you apply it to a large minority, if not to a majority of the population of the State. To these people the term is obnoxious as is "nigger" to a Negro, and with equal reason, since it is an expression of ignorant racial contempt on the part of the self-styled superior Anglo-Americans. . . . The term "greaser" is very seldom used out here. . . . Spanish American people of the Southwest . . . are as friendly and pleasant a people as one could ask for and being mostly very lean, they are far less greasy in appearance than...
...platform in Manhattan one day last week, under glaring spotlights, stood Harry Strauss registering easy contempt. His eyes were slits in a sallow, freshly-shaved face. His nails were well manicured, his thick, black hair sleekly pomaded. Over a blue suit pressed razor- smooth, with blue shirt and tie to match, he wore a Chesterfield overcoat with vel vet collar. His pearl-grey fedora rode jauntily above a sneering smile...
Having refused to accept the censorship of Senator Huey P. Long, the entire staff of the Louisiana State "Reveille," with the exception of one person, has been suspended from the university for insubordination and contempt of authority...
Outside the small, chaste chamber that once used to house the Senate there was one question which, if put to any of the nine black-robed Justices on the bench, would have resulted in a summary contempt of court citation. The question: Will the Supreme Court follow the election returns? Forthcoming decisions from this august tribunal on NRA, on AAA, on gold contracts, on railway pensions, on collective bargaining, on farm mortgage moratoriums, on many another headline issue will supply an answer that no amount of charming insistence from the White House, no thumping majority votes in Congress can override...
...their political beliefs the Elders are made to combine the worst features of Bolshevism and of reactionary Despotism. At times they seem to favor a carefully controlled Communistic system, but they also have a haughty contempt for the masses. Thus: "In their intense meanness the Christian peoples help our independence?when kneeling, they crouch before power; when they are pitiless towards the weak; when merciless in dealing with faults, and lenient to crimes; when they refuse to recognize the contradictions of freedom; when they are patient to the degree of martyrdom in bearing with the violence of an audacious despotism...