Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...investigating committee which had discovered that it was not oil wells that truth lay at the bottom of, secured the passage of a law empowering the Senate committee to summon witnesses from abroad. Furthermore, the law provided that a person refusing to honor such summons be judged guilty of contempt and fined to the extent...
French aristocracy has, in the main, a healthy contempt for le T. S. F.;* but, recently, when famed coutourier Paul Poiret spoke over ether waves at Paris, he was widely listened to - for M. Poiret had a grievance. He complained - as does many a great artist who executes the commissions of a U. S. clientele - that his work is only bought, not appreciated. A sturdy U. S. comment would be: "He should worry, so long as it's bought!" But M. Poiret's deep, booming voice had a note savoring of genuine anguish last week, as it reverberated...
...make a display of his wealth or education. In the practical affairs of life, when a man uses an odd or unusual word to convey a meaning that could have been as easily and as quickly conveyed by a more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein a few years ago, but "the seed apparently has fallen...
Equipped with these charges and with contempt of court rules, a reporter of Publisher Hearst's scurrilous Detroit Times approached Mrs. Hoffman, questioned her. The Times published her denials of the charges, along with this statement: "It seems to me," said she, "that someone is trying to keep this case from the jury...
...publication of this interview prompted Federal Judge Raymond to grant the motion of the Ford attorneys for a mistrial. He dismissed the charges against Mrs. Hoffman and started contempt proceedings against the Detroit Times. Thus, it was decided that the Hearst type of journalism is a greater menace to justice than the indiscreet babbling of a woman juror...