Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bishops also had trouble with the priesthood last week. They cannot induce sufficient young men to study for orders in order to fil all vicarates. Rt. Hon. Arthur Foley Winnington Ingram, Bishop of London, noted at the Church Assembly in London that there is "a certain amount of social contempt for a boy who intends to become a clergy...
Completely do we coincide with these views, also your [his] forceful footnote. Such publicity will bring home to these, and other so called "Sportsmen," the utter contempt such butchers are held in by a vast majority, thus arousing the present apathy to our fast disappearing wild life...
...appeals for a decision declaring him an equal partner with La Varre. But one J. T. Webb Jr. of Macon, Ga. was appointed by Federal court as commissioner to manage the newspapers pending their sale. La Varre ejected Commissioner Webb from the Columbia Record office, went to jail for contempt. He emerged to fight a petition by Partner Hall for the sale of the papers. He lost...
Henry Mason Day, jailed with Harry Ford Sinclair for contempt of court after the Teapot Dome oil investigation, was made a partner of Redmond & Co., Wall Street brokers...
...Casseres characterizes himself as a critic of, "intuitional tastes . . who does not analyze or weigh, but apotheosizes or slays". It is just such treatment he gives Mr. Mencken. He speaks of him as one who, "has everywhere an implied, if not explicit, contempt for those who use any dodge to escape reality. There is something tremendously courageous, almost sadistically so, in this attitude. It is probable, with him, that reality itself is an escape from something he fears more--sentiment, romance, mysticism... "Mencken never describes anything, he tears it to pieces and throws it in your face... His aesthetic...