Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...orally deleted about one-third of what he had written and in the following sentence interpolated as follows: "Little did the founders reckon that a time would come when the New Canaan would be largely occupied by men of the splendid Irish race, whom they held in deep contempt, or of the noble Roman faith, which they regarded with deep abhorrence...
...financial hole. Bill No. 1 provided for the collection of an annual 15% tax on the gross advertising revenue of all daily publishers. A newspaper would have to pay such a tax for each office that it operates. Failure to pay would render the publishers in contempt of court, liable to imprisonment...
When Mr. Snowden only pursed his bloodless lips the tighter, Mr. Churchill complained to the Speaker that "the Chancellor is treating this House with insolence and offensiveness ? I may say with supremely insolent indifference and contempt...
Grinning once more as he saw another opening the Chancellor snarled back, "I have been charged with treating His Majesty's Loyal Opposition with contempt. On the contrary, I have done my best to conceal and hide my contempt...
Tall, sinewy, with iron-grey hair, pointed beard, high cheekbones, keen, kind eyes behind his scholar's spectacles, Philosopher Unamuno is a mystic but no wishy-washy one. Says he: "I have put passion into my books-the passion of hatred, the passion of disdain, the passion of contempt!'' He is married. "Like my Basque country, I have no history, or rather it is all purely internal. Since my birth in Bilbao on the 29th of September 1864 of a Basque family, nothing has happened to me that can interest a reader. ... As to my internal life...