Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was no struggle in the Prime Minister's conscience, Lord Snowden insists. "He [MacDonald] had always entertained a feeling of something like contempt for trade union leaders," reminisced the onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer. "His mind, a long time before this crisis arose, had been turning to the idea of a new party orientation and government by what he called a 'Council of State.' He set about the formation of a National Government with an enthusiasm which showed the adventure was highly agreeable...
...that his wife Allene had slipped in the bathtub and fatally fractured her skull (TIME, Sept. 11, 1933). Judge Waste and his associates on the Supreme bench last week declared the Lamson new-trial story untrue, cited the Chronicle, Editor Chester Rowell and Managing Editor William D. Chandler for contempt of court. Crowds that flocked to the hearing to see Republican Pundit Rowell squirm in a witness chair were disappointed. The editors were represented by lawyers. Scolded Justice Waste: "It does not look like due diligence was exercised to determine whether the information on the article was true...
...teacher, a bum who was still too dignified to sell dirty postcards. At times he seems as inept an introspective fumbler as Sherwood Anderson at his silliest, but at others he gets nearer the gist of the matter than Anderson at his most inspired. Though Saroyan has a contempt for cleverness, literariness, his searching simplicity sometimes accomplishes cleverness' own job. Saroyan sometimes uses the impressionistic patter of his day, but plain readers will feel themselves most directly addressed in such straight words as these: "At three in the morning you are apt to come upon strange specimens of life...
...this country, but for a time it seemed that that victory would be an empty one. Labor took the first oportunity of embarrassing business, at the beginning of a slight industrial upturn, and through its usual obstinacy and arrogance, failed to gain its ends, but winning instead the general contempt of the country. This has been the usual trend of labor difficulties in recent years, but the failure is due to the men who have dominated the organizations, and not to the laboring men themselves...
Then Bilbo was nabbed, haled into court on a contempt charge, sentenced to 30 days in the Oxford jail. At Oxford the chancellor of the University of Mississippi saw that Bilbo had three square meals a day. Released after ten days, Bilbo walked out of jail, climbed up on the back of a wagon, announced his second candidacy for the Governorship. During this campaign he took cognizance of State-wide gossip about his sex life. To a female audience The Man Bilbo cried: ''If these stories about The Man Bilbo are true, you've got to admit...