Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House last week Scot MacDonald interrupted a bickering debate with this cry of despair: "What is the use! What is the use of members watching the clock go round and getting up to indulge in talk, talk, talk? It is bringing this House into contempt-this listless, lifeless talk, talk, talk...
...trifling with the court. . . . The evidence established beyond all possibility of doubt that during the month of February the respondent was not confined to his bed. . . . The statement made on March 5 that he had been out of bed only ten days was glaringly false." Found guilty of contempt, Capone was sentenced to serve six months in the Cook County jail...
Chicagoans wondered if at last Capone's luck had turned against him, if his strange immunities from the Law were over, if his contempt conviction were the beginning of the end of his power in the second city of the land...
Judge Lyle, chastened, went back to his bench. Gangster Capone, happy, went into Federal Court to answer contempt charges (see p. 12). Mayor Thompson, exhausted, went to a Michigan sanatorium to build up strength for the campaign against Nominee Cermak which ends with the election April...
...grateful letter of thanks, H. R. H. absolved the Church of England or "High Church" from any stigma of having criticized him, referred with withering contempt to the "torrent of abuse [heaped] upon me not only by the Press, but by the Low Church and especially the Non-conformists...