Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Judge Wilkerson was less severe than he might have been, he was running no risk of ambiguity. Patiently he explained : that Snorkey's sentence of six months for contempt of court, which he has not yet served, might run concurrently with the felony sentences, so that Snorkey would not have to serve more than eleven years; but, in case a higher court overruled his sentence on the three felony counts, thereby cutting ten years from the sentences, the two misdemeanor sentences and the sentence for contempt must be served consecutively. Thus Judge Wilkerson made as sure as possible that...
...same charge that Representative Tinkham had made last year; but Bishop Cannon had defied the Caraway Lobby Investigating Committee and walked out (TIME, June 16, 1930). Miss Burroughs had obdurately refused to testify before the Nye Senate Campaign Funds Committee which then threatened to cite her for contempt. Last week's charges, the ten counts of which could provide an aggregate of ten years in jail and $21,000 in fines, were made by the District of Columbia Grand Jury, which under District Attorney Leo Rover took over the evidence collected by the Nye Committee...
Said President Holt: "A man can be a mucker [on the gridiron and diamond] and still get applause. The same tactics in the duck blind or on the quail field will bring him the contempt of his companions. Taking an average, I have found more outdoorsmen whom I admired than I have athletes...
...courts. Harry Sinclair faced the bar of a Federal Court five times in those years, always smiling, debonair, sure of himself. His mood changed to dejection one night in May 1929 when he entered the District of Columbia jail to serve six and one-half months for contempt of the Senate and for jury shadowing, charges arising out of his long battle to escape the more serious accusation of bribery...
...like the crew of the Walloping Windowblind. Commodore Aldrich will ever be compelled to dine on the bark of the Rug-Bug tree or to traffic with a Chinese junk. A member of 18 clubs and seven directorates, including the board of American Telephone & Telegraph Co., he can have contempt for the wildest blow on shore...