Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister). When Greater Chicago prospered he "stayed away from home . . . found amusement and pleasure in gambling dens." treated Plaintiff Burns with "utter contempt...
Because he would not tell the New Jersey legislature how he made his fortune, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City was arrested for contempt. Last week his great & good Democratic friend Vice-Chancellor John J. Fallen of New Jersey quashed his arrest as unconstitutional. Promptly Mayor Hague sailed for Europe in the imperial suite of the S. S. Berengaria...
Guèret loved Angèle but at first he excited only her contempt with his tactlessness, her pity with his distress, her amused indifference with his bitter glumness at her lack of response, her fear with his broad but bent shoulders. "Naturally she had no illusions about what the man wanted, but by a monstrous caprice of her nature she resolved to refuse him everything because he did not despise her." She retreated in rage when he guessed her occupation...
...should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected within the gaunt metal hangar of the U. S. Coast Guard station near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar as Alderman mounted the scaffold. A singing sea breeze through the shed swayed his body at the end of a rope as justice was done for all good U. S. people...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, spending six months in a Washington jail for contempt of court and the U. S. Senate, petitioned President Hoover, through the Department of Justice, for commutation of sentence. His reason: ill health...