Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago last week one John A. Morrison, juror in an embezzlement trial, sucked at a whiskey bottle during the proceedings, hiccoughed all through recesses, was too drunk for coherence during the voting, had to be tubbed, caused a mistrial, was held for contempt of court, got ten days in jail...
...charges that the New Deal flouts the Constitution and regiments all U. S. economic life, some New Dealers were certain that the U. S. would promptly see through and repudiate ALL as a tool of selfish Old Dealers. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma used his utmost term of contempt to tag ALL's members ? "gold dollar men." Said Relief Administrator Hopkins: "The League may be composed of right-thinking people but they are so far Right that no one will ever find them...
There was not a regular doctor in Chicago, in Illinois or in the U. S. last week who had anything but supreme contempt for the medical theories of "Dr." Oakley Smith and his 200 followers who helped him celebrate the 25th anniversary of Naprapathy. "Dr." Smith was a kind of chiropractor when he conceived these theories and invented the name "Naprapathy" from the Czech naprava ("correction") and the Greek pathos ("suffering"). Naprapaths claim that all disease is due to shrunken ligaments ("ligatights") pressing upon nerves. The naprapath tries to ease the pressure by manipulating the "ligatights," somewhat after the fashion...
Judge Harlan gave them the week-end to think it over. On Monday they reappeared, again refused as a matter of professional ethics to reveal their pipelines. Judge Harlan fined each $10 for contempt of court...
...COMMIT TO THE FLAMES-Ivor Brown -Harper ($2). An English essayist commits various modern manifestations to the flames of his contempt. Tories will like this...