Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have asked a banker 20 years ago for the financing of a cinema concern would have been of no avail. He had probably never heard of motion pictures. Or, if he had, he held them in contempt as grotesque novelties of penny arcades, honkytonks. And he classed the cinema entrepreneur as a probably illiterate and possibly dirty "outsider." Today the banker reaches out for cinema investments, which are all the more attractive because they represent a $1,500,000,000 amusement industry operated on a cash basis. Not one of the 45,000,000 people who in the course...
...proclamation standing before them. Tiger cat Pilsudski, no doubt secretly intrigued by the defiance of his mice, turned the incident into high comedy by commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt for the parliamentarians Pilsudski called off his troops, last week, retired into his palace, brooded upon whether to take in deadly earnest the jest of Opposition news organs which satirically hailed him as: "PILSUDSKI AUGUSTUS, IMPERATOR...
...coarse expectoration of its speech" as freely upon collegians and journals at Cambridge as upon the Nassavians. Who is to give assurances for Harvard? So far as we know, her graduates are friendly to Princeton. The rivalries of college newspapers at Cambridge are as notorious as the general contempt for most of them. Still, this attack of muckeritis is momentous The Princetonian darkly intimates that the Big Three may be disrupted. That would be intolerable...
Said Premier Lykke, last week: "The Government will at once introduce a bill abolishing prohibition. We take it for granted that the Storting (Parliament) will adopt the measure. Enforcement of prohibition law has proved impossible and has led to contempt for and disregard of all laws as well as to extensive smuggling and incitement to drink...
...Babe Ruth swung his bat in a smooth high arc and began to run while the ball he had hit rode smoothly over the bleachers and dropped into Grand Avenue outside the park. It was Ruth's afternoon. The day before he had proclaimed in colorful language his contempt for St. Louis; now he must make good or be derided. Furthermore an eleven-year-old boy dying of blood poisoning in Essex Fields, N. J., had sent him a telegram asking for a home run. The appeal was exactly the sort of thing to appeal to Ruth...