Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Those near the sacred steps saw the figure accept papers from the law officers, pretend to read them, mutter: "I, Bishop Adam Phillipovsky, am found guilty of contempt of court. I shall go with...
...Light of the Western Stars, by Zane Grey, gives Mr. Noah Beery an opportunity to express, by flexing his facial muscles, lust, anger, confidence, contempt for his enemies as one Brand, who always gives his victims the choice between paying him $10,000 down or taking the walk of death, haha. He has designs upon a girl. Her true love, a surefooted, sound-toothed Benedict bowls Brand over...
...Court left undecided a number of important cases, including the charge of contempt of the Senate against Mal S. Daugherty, brother of the former Attorney General (for refusing to produce his bank records) ; the "Oregon postmaster case," which rests on a question never yet determined: whether the President has power to dismiss an official whom he appointed with the consent of the Senate...
...have no respect for law, merely as law. It is the duty of every citizen to show his contempt, so far as is convenient and seemly, for any laws that seem to him contemptible. . . . I would have my grandson study Rabelais, Montaigne, Ben Franklin and Li Tai Po, rather than William Jennings Bryan...
Just now no athletic organization of minor importance is working quite so hard as the lacrosse team under a young and enthusiastic coach to live down ten years of universal contempt. On last Saturday it suddenly was brought to public attention by robbing Princeton of its annual victory, as the newspaper headlines so ironically...