Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Hergesheimer, somewhat socially-minded but far from panaceatic, tells his tales and lets it go at that. But the most casual reader will see that the suave surface of these stories covers a satirical intention that amounts at times to savage contempt...
...circulation to 176,000, two-and-a-half times the Chronicle's. Baron Camrose wailed in protest against the Rothermere circulation method, which was to give free and hearty dinners plus free insurance policies to longtime subscribers. But ruthless Rothermere's only reply was to snort his contempt of "old fogies" in the business. In Bristol Rothermere dazzled the natives by building the most modern and luxurious newspaper plant outside of London...
...very exalted view of medicine, speaks his candid mind on all occasions. ''An old horse doctor like me looks at them and all he can see is that medical science is perfectly useless in 95 out of every 100 cases." Though he has great contempt for most of his neighbors, Doc Bull has found a kindred spirit in Janet Cardmaker, unconventional spinster who is far from being an old maid. She and Doc Bull are suspect, thought to be in league, but neither of them cares a whoop...
...small banks were not helped to the extent that he claimed. Mary a former staunch Republican realizes the, fatuousness of having trusted the departing administration. Audacity and insincerity comparable to Tammany's might have provoked admiration, but puerile blunders, too blatantly so to be successfully concealed have evoked merely contempt...
...addition to the above-mentioned charge, Dubois was also accused of treating his superior officer with contempt. The charge drawn up in the official document read as follows: "In that Eugene DuBois, now a junior grade Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, while so serving on board the U.S.S. Boylston, did, on or about November 2, 1932, while officer-of-the-deck of the said ship, say in a disrespectful and contemptuous manner to one Edward Hallett Preble, then a Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, who was then and there in the execution of his office, 'You are an incompetent misfit; who told...