Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Contempt of Court. In Troy, N.Y., Police Justice Thomas O'Connor complained that within the last month ten traffic violators had paid their fines with bad checks. In Knoxville, Tenn., Jimmy Doyle was charged with the theft of a raincoat, an overcoat, a shotgun and an $8 check from his lawyer's office...
...Tricks. Rugged, bellicose Defense Attorney Vincent Hallinan, who hasn't been quite so rambunctious since Judge George B. Harris clamped a six months' jail sentence on him early in the trial for contempt, rushed at John Schomaker like a cocky mahout. Pretending to read from a transcript of Schomaker's testimony in a 1939 court hearing, he asked the witness: "Do you remember being asked 'Are you a member of the Communist Party?' Answer...
...does not get his way by pounding the table; he uses men by flattering them, charming them with silky good humor, or freezing them with quiet contempt. His political pliability sometimes leads him to weakness. Recently, the Socialists introduced a bill in the Bundestag providing cash Christmas gifts for refugees. A Christian Democrat spokesman pointed out that this was a purely political bill designed to win votes, and that the government had no money to spare for the bonus proposal. But when the Socialists forced an open roll-call vote and Adenauer's name was called as the first...
...houses, forced it to yank the fourth article a half hour before press time. Last week, after rereading the Bill of Rights, Judge Horrigan decided he had gone too far. He rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such stories it might be found in contempt of court. Meanwhile, the project's builders had slapped a $100,000 libel suit against the Herald. Unperturbed, Publisher Lee said: "We'll keep on printing the news when, where and how it occurs...
...This is my funeral," came a voice from a recording made four years before. "I am an atheist and have been for many years. I have the utmost contempt for theological nonsense. Clergymen are moral cowards. Miracles are a product of the imagination. If any four reporters were sent to an execution and got their facts as twisted as the apostles in the Bible report, they would be fired forthwith. I want no religious songs. This is going to be a perfectly rational funeral...