Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lady. Excerpt: TIME'S cover story last week "narrates the trip of Doña Eva Perón to Spain with such bad taste, stupid style, lack of good behavior, so boorishly in sum that we find ourselves obliged as well-born people to declare our profound contempt, our nausea, not only at the useless falsehoods this narration contains but at its grossness, coarseness, its undissimulated irritation and its lack of respect for a lady, the wife of the chief of a state...
...Gerhart Eisler, in contempt of Congress for refusing to take an oath before the House Un-American Activities Committee, was sentenced to one year in jail, $1,000 fine...
...Eugene Dennis, General Secretary of the Communist Party, was convicted of contempt of Congress after refusing to answer a committee subpoena...
...Sixteen board members of the left-wing Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Committee were convicted of contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over their books to the committee. Among the reluctant board members: Chairman Edward K. Barsky, a doctor with the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil War; Communist-line Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast; Theatrical Producer Herman (The Searching Wind) Shumlin...
...Many Moslems have only contempt for Western sex ethics, which they consider hypocritical. Mohamed used monogamy as a punishment, admonishing: "If you cannot deal equitably and justly with all, you shall marry only...