Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Belisle deplores the University's "inept public relations" coming from its Faculty's "actual or seeming contempt for the masses" and "the adolescent nihilism" of its students, declaring that it must hold itself accountable for criticism resulting from their actions...
Circuit Judge Paul V. Gadola of Flint, whose contempt citations against General Motors strikers were ignored at the Governor's order in 1937, testified with much heat. Whereupon Representative Harold G. Mosier of Ohio, who was defeated by C. I. O. pressure in the recent Democratic primary, addressed the judge: ''Let's get this matter straight. Just to show there was no politics in it, Governor Murphy is a Democrat and you are a Democrat.'' "I am not," cried Judge Gadola. "I am a Republican! Until this New Deal coattail parade started, there wasn...
Meanwhile the blazing Arab revolt showed an unprecedented contempt for British might. Rebels gained the upper hand throughout most of the tiny country. British courts of law ceased to function in all but the larger cities. Effective British government was confined to the boundaries of new Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa. Daily trains to Egypt operated only thrice weekly, and then under armed guard. Arson, murder, wanton destruction made the Holy Land a land of terror, reducing Britain's prestige in the Near East to its lowest point in history...
...contempt shown by the Dionnes for the story of Five of a Kind is by no means inexcusable. The cinema struggle to fit such curiosities into a plausible narrative always includes Jean Hersholt, as Dr. Luke, and John Qualen in a somewhat libelous interpretation of the squintuplets' father. Five of a Kind winds this amorphous group into a tangled web of rivalry and romance between two ill-mannered newspaper and radio commentators (Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero). Best shot: all five Dionnes sneering at kindly Actor Hersholt...
...sister, who protested against this affair, he wrote the most impassioned letters in the book, demanding that she receive his mistress and condemning artificial moral standards: "Do you think I have been insincere in what I have written all my life? Do you think that my contempt for law, society and conformity are not genuine? Well, I can tell you I am no faker. I shall always try to appear to conform, but I shall not do so to,-well, to avoid the disapproval of others...