Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Attribute your telegram to inexperience or ignorance or both. Therefore I hope the committee will not proceed against you for contempt. But do not offend again...
...nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that could be handed out? . . . The women of Louisiana cannot be frightened off by any such telegram as yours...
...Vagabond has passed through the turmoil of being finger-printed by the Bursar's minions and catalogued in the files of the Summer School like a rare bird's egg, with his collar dampened as much as his ardour and a fine healthy contempt for geographical distribution blanks, salmon-colored cards which the officials call pink, and courses which may or may not give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling...
...screamed: "The bankers produce a financial crisis and then manipulate that crisis for their own further financial gain. . . . They then hypocritically cry for reduction in taxes and hence for reductions in wages." Cried President Henry Richardson Linville: "We can easily believe that a great banker may develop a supreme contempt for education, while with one hand he compels the legislature of the Empire State to reduce the salaries of teachers, and with the other . . . avoids the charges of Federal income tax laws." On and on it went...
...bribery but for contempt of court Theodore Gilmore Bilbo was sentenced to 30 days, of which he served ten, in jail at Oxford. He had refused to testify in a $100,000 seduction suit brought by a Capital stenographer against his good friend Governor Lee Maurice Russell...