Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This contempt Reporter Callender illustrated with the anecdote of the Spanish barber who, while shaving an Italian, put the question, "Why did you come here...
Caustic without being bitter is Boston's white-thatched, bow-tied Porter Sargent. The saltiest commentator on U. S. education, from which he makes his living but for which he has a certain amused contempt, Porter Sargent prefaces his famed annual catalogue of 4,000 private schools with his shrewd opinions on men and affairs. Last week, in the 22nd edition of his Handbook of Private Schools, he threw most of his custard pies at the two most popular favorites of U. S. higher education -President James Bryant Conant of Harvard and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University...
...commands to vacate, they held fast until Fansteel's lawyer devised a portable _ wooden tower, enabled officers to douse the sit-downers with nauseating gas. Last September, the National Labor Relations Board declined to concede that subsequent conviction of 37 strikers and two C. I. O. leaders on contempt of court charges in any way affected workers' rights under the Wagner Act. By directing Fansteel to re-employ the strikers, recognize their union, the board clearly informed all employers that relief from sit-downs was not to be found in the Wagner Act or NLRB...
Last week, while a U. S. Circuit court was giving NLRB another one in the bread basket (see above), the Second Appellate Court of Illinois upheld the convictions for contempt, clearly informed Illinois employers that State and local law still protected them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power...
...person who has any remote interest in the antiquity of Greece and Rome. It is a strange thing that seemingly intelligent people consider the Classics as "a dull joke" or "definitely exotic" or commit the old fallacy of expressing the term "dead languages" in a tone of contempt. To postulate as a self evident truth the fact that there is nothing of importance in the doings of man before 1900, is to exhibit a downright ignorance of the past and foolishly sublime confidence in the present. The test of and education lies in the degree to which it strengthens individual...