Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conducted, served an ultimatum on George Douglas, attorney for Mrs. Millen, and professor at the Suffolk Law School. Brown delivered the notice that anyone connected with the publication of the story--provided that after the ultimatum the Record's feet were not frostbitten--would be hailed into court for contempt. This judgment was rendered on the point that publication of such an article would be the same as allowing a witness to testify in public before the case had come to trial...
...simpering smile one inference can be drawn, but if she shrinks back in obvious horror you might draw another inference altogether. I doubt if it is libel to say a woman was raped, because the usual definition of libel is something holding a person up to ridicule, hatred or contempt...
...testify against himself. We must strengthen the police and prosecution by giving them means of making criminals talk. In England, as soon as a man is arrested, he is brought before a judge, and forced to testify. If he refuses, he is thrown into prison for contempt of court. Some such system here would help to avoid errors...
...present Gullahs perform the same homely functions today, and the Civil War, (the only war they recognize) has left them little changed. Indeed, the grizzled old deacons are constantly harking back to the good old days, and the occasional automobile seen in those parts is regarded with mild contempt by eyes which, in brighter days, have seen the Colonel spin swiftly past in his glittering coach and four...
...portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect and aloof from his fellows. His contempt for the "pobuckras," as the negroes term white people of mean extraction, is equalled only by the amused disdain in which he holds Yankees and other commercial persons. The little white church in the grove he has never entered...