Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...float to Europe from Atlantic City, but his bag fell, off Halifax. In 1894 he had tried to reach the Pole with dog and sledge, being halted only 200 miles short of success. . . . Last week, Walter Wellman occupied a jail cell in Brooklyn, charged with contempt of court for disregarding a summons in an action by one Andrew K. Reynolds of Washington, D. C., to collect $280, an alleged debt. Mr. Wellman was released only when Banker-Explorer H. Murray Jacoby of Manhattan, an admirer, sent him a check to end what Mr. Jacoby termed a "sad spectacle...
...Spain retains her nonpermanent seat and has not given notice of withdrawal from the League, but ostentatiously registered contempt for the Council by sending a mere diplomatic underling to occupy the Spanish nonpermanent seat during the Council sessions a fortnight ago. (TIME, June...
...Contempt. If the Chicago Tribune and its noisy offspring, Liberty, had their way, they would persuade ignorant readers that Stephen Decatur's ". . . our country right or wrong" is the greatest patriotic phrase ever mouthed. But executives of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church of Manhattan last week invited Dr. Minot C. Morgan of Detroit to be their associate pastor (at $12,000 yearly), he who damned that phrase as "a damnable toast of some patriotic Americans...
...whom Albert B. Fall was one. He was accused of libel and tried before a Judge Leahy, who he openly charged was corrupt. The trial was sensational, a jury was gathered none of whom could speak English. Magee was convicted and sentenced for libel, then several times sentenced for contempt of Court. Repeated pardons from the government and interference of the U. S. courts freed him. Then he succeeded in having Judge Leahy defeated for reelection. Last fall Leahy went up to Magee in a hotel lobby, knocked him down, kicked him, broke two of his ribs. Magee...
...loves his enemies and while he subdues them he makes them happy. He acts the general, the Briton, the conqueror and the Christian." From his own correspondence, however, it appears that the Indians were not among the enemies loved and made happy by Amherst. He held them in supreme contempt. He directed a subordinate: "You will do well to try to inoculate the Indians [with smallpox] by means of blankets, as well as to try every other method that can serve to extirpate this execrable race." Bluff, arrogant, forthright, Amherst is thus seen as a soldier of quite modern scientific...