Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...civics. It took place in the headlines and in Room 304 in the U. S. Senate office building where sits the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Defendant Mitchell had been charged with no crime. But had he failed to appear, he would have been clapped promptly into jail ("contempt of the Senate"). There was no attorney for the defense. There was, however, a prosecution. It consisted of 1) six to a dozen Senators and 2) a man quite as remarkable as any of the Senators, Ferdinand Pecora...
...think of them. No name for a dog carries less than the nasty meaning unconsciously given fragrant words like "stink," nor has any animal gained such universal, nay, such high praise. All who learn to read know the foul loathing for the hound which Shakespeare held, the fear and contempt which the beast inspired in the ancients; those who have no knowledge of the creature's filthy ways have idealized it as did Barrle in Wendy's Nana; those who tread in false fear or forbidden paths see a Cerberus in every canine form. But men who own dogs...
...beat down a small but dogged opposition which filibustered against his bill for the better part of the three weeks it was before the Senate. He had to keep his temper and his tongue when abused by windy petti-foggers for whose intelligence he had only scorn and contempt. A man of smaller calibre might have given up the struggle- but not "Pluck" Glass. For his reward he had a bill in which he boasted "not an 'i' had been dotted nor 't' crossed by its opponents" without his consent...
...throwing Mrs. Ward. Under cross-examination by Lawyer John William Guider she admitted referring to Griffith as "lacto bacillus acidopholus-because he would sour the milk of human kindness"; and as a "dirty rotten turtle egg" because someone had told her that was the Chinese expression of supreme contempt...
...against the amendment; the House has refused to sanction the proper enforcement of it; yet with all this, the law remains on the statute books. The immediate result is that whatever other money is spent in the half-hearted enforcement is only wasted. Finally, the House is inevitably breeding contempt of all law by giving carte blanche to all to violate a provision of the national constitution...