Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...current issue of the Nation Jo Swerling rehearses the story of the rise of that sad phenomenon of modern degeneracy, the tabloid newspaper. His account bristles with satiric humor, but under it all runs a tragic under-current, --the bitter contempt and resentment of old-time newspaperman toward this present day state of depravity into which his profession has fallen...
...creed. Every action is timed and tried in the effort for an effect when the spotlight of public opinion is turned upon the individual. Not what one likes but what he must like, what is going to save him, self conscious mortal that he is, from the contempt of his world--that is alone important...
...have the greatest contempt for the way they teach at Oxford. The only things of any value there are the games that are played. The modern young man has no mental discipline. He thinks he can learn all about everything from casual conversation instead of from books. That is impossible. My advice to him is to read, read, read...
That word "contempt" is one that gives a maximum of satisfaction when spat out by old British lips and it usually exaggerates the feeling of the speaker. But there was little exaggeration in this case for the speaker was old Sir Edmund Gosse, poet and critic, onetime (1904-14) Librarian to the House of Lords, who at 76 styles himself "the last of the Pre-Raphaelites...
...bluff the judge into admitting expert evidence upon the soundness of the theory of evolution. And upon refusal he became abusive, highly disrespectful and contemptuous in his conduct toward the court. He had no purpose or motive except publicity and notoriety. After he had been cited for contempt and when faced with the probability of paying a fine, he made the most humble and abject apology. The character of Darrow is again shown by a recent public statement made by him that 'courts are cockpits in which lawyers may fight...