Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge which Gangster Capone found waiting for him inside the building was contempt of court. Two years ago on grounds of extreme illness he excused himself from returning from Miami to Chicago to be examined by a grand jury investigating bootleggers' incomes. Last week the Federal Government was prepared to show that Capone had been playing 'possum, could well have answered the summons to Chicago...
...pleasant boon to Bean-town if the good-natured but generally sloppy "Globe" could be prodded into over-coming its reluctance to tamper with its golden formula. It could be made into a first rate paper. And why should not the "Transcript" be chided into forsaking its snobbish contempt for the technical advances of the past quarter century in the newspaper world? In fact, would not Boston and New England profit if our local papers decided to forsake complacency for a little, first-class, cut-throat competition...
...another old charge against him Judge Wilkerson of Chicago's Federal Court had not. Summoned before a Federal Grand Jury two years ago, Mr. Capone had remained in Miami, pleaded illness, gone to horseraces. Last week he was ordered to appear in Chicago Federal Court to answer a contempt charge...
...maligners of the good name of our own fair land stand refuted, now gangsterism will dissolve before the might of an outraged nation. The law has demonstrated its majesty, the alleged murderer stands convicted. Charge--contempt of court. Sentence--six months in prison. Present status of the prisoner--out on ball until his appeal comes...
...Public School Boy hates to be seen exerting himself. His kindly contempt for the "Swot" is largely due to his belief that it is rather bad form to let other fellows know that you are exerting yourself. He hates fuss of any kind and he regards the man who is conspicuously busy as making a fuss...