Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reporting such bits of the trial as this. Alberta Opposition papers went to such lengths last week that Mr. Justice Ives before whom the suit was being heard decided there had been contempt of court by reporters and their publishers...
...enhanced. Roiter resigned from the university, got many an abusive letter in his daily mail. He knew that his invalid son. best of his family, was dying. When Hallem's son brought him the news of his father's suicide and accused Roiter of having always felt contempt for Hallem, of needing his wretchedness as a foil for his own excellence. Roiter admitted it. When Roiter died, a few days later, he was a really great man at last. Side by side with this main narrative- the lifelong duel between Hallem who wanted to die and Roiter...
...qualifies as a literary man by telling how well he knew, the literary big-shots, and we jump with astonishment at the suggestion that he is in any way an apologist for "our institutions." We understood from him that the institutions of this nation of Philistines were beneath his contempt. He made us certain of it, because he had read Nietzsche and "comparative history," whatever that...
...published in Forces. Spoke up indomitable Marthe: "I would be ashamed to make my living the way you do. Justice is rotten and when I am in the presence of its representatives it gives me the greatest pleasure to tell them so.'' The court slapped on a contempt of court charge and sentenced Marthe to three months in jail...
...Skoda, Schneider-Creusot) had contributed to his campaign expenses. When, however, he was challenged to make a direct denial that this was so, he stormed from the witness stand, cursed the opposing lawyer for a Jew, never specifically answered the question, and was subsequently fined 1,000 marks for contempt of court, as a result. De Wendel and Schneider, according to their immemorial custom, said nothing, and nowhere has a denial of the accusation ever been made...