Word: contemptibly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...would be safe from occasional maltreatment at the hands of coach-drivers and laborers. Excluded as he is from good society, and confined to that of his associates, poverty-stricken, neglected, despised, he is yet fond of life and enterprise, proud of his slender knowledge, and full of contempt for the blunders of the government. From his obscure corner he looks at everything with a hostile eye, and his opposition to the state and society becomes more pronounced with every new revolutionary rising and Nihilistic attempt. - [Kolnische Zeitung...
...virulent free trade editorial contained in this morning's issue of the HERALD. Its writer seriously discredits the interest of Harvard students in the tariff question when he asserts that there is little likelihood of the protectionist pamphlets being read, and he also takes an unwarranted opportunity to cast contempt upon certain aminent advocates of protection. The arguments advanced in these documents are, naturally, in portions, severely partisan and at times inconsequent, having been originally expressed orally at a public meeting; but that they are wholly absurd and readily fallacious in statement is hardly to be believed, even...
...college, for which we have, indeed, every reason to be grateful, will take no trouble to inquire into the merits or demerits of any dispute in which Harvard is engaged, adopting that view which is the most obvious, or is presented to them first, do more to bring contempt and discredit upon their Alma Mater in one year than undergraduates could do in fifty...
...public. The accounts of the Yale-Harvard game, given by the New York Clipper and other papers, could not have been written without some basis to sustain the charge. Yale, at last realizing the force of this charge has been compelled to treat it with something besides brow-beating contempt. - [Nassan (Princeton...
...police commissioners of New York yesterday afternoon received an opinion from the corporation council on the issue between the police and the bookmakers at Jerome Park. It says that pending the present injunction the police cannot make arrests without being adjudged guilty of contempt of court...