Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this time, of course, Mr. Cromartie is torn with anxiety as to whether or not Josephine will come to view him. He resolves that he will not look at her if she does. He resolves he will look at her?just one lofty glance of proud contempt, as if to say: "Well, I've kept my word." He hopes she will repent and weep for her heartlessness. He hopes she will not repent...
...Adopted a resolution directing that an appeal be brought in the case of Mai Daugherty, brother of the former Attorney General, who was acquitted on a charge of contempt for refusing to bring various records before the Daugherty investigating committee...
...critic was the Daily Herald, official organ of the Independent Labor Party. The newspaper referred to the "ostentatious" court gown of Mrs. Philip Snowden and "the scarlet coat and blue trousers trimmed with silver braid" of "Jamie" Brown, King George's proxy at Holyrood, spoke of its "impatient contempt for such misuse of life...
...alleged infraction of the prohibition laws. The President had been given to understand that the fine had been paid although the sentence had not been served. The President's statement was given out following the action of a Chicago judge who ruled that the man was sentenced for contempt and that, therefore, the President did not have the power to pardon. Attorney General Stone instituted an examination of the case to determine whether the denial of the President's power to pardon was legal...
Those who remember the lively and fraternal days of the Senior Picnic,--now passed beyond recall, in all probability--may regard with virile contempt the Senior Celebration taking place tonight--not in wild and unpopulated regions, as did its famous predecessors,--but in the confined and domesticated area of the Yard. Instead of the unlawful and justly unpopular activities formerly viewed with such righteous indignation by most of the Seniors, there will be moving pictures. Possibly even that incomparable comedy which was conspicuous by its absence at the 1924 Smoker, and which had previously stimulated such merriment at all gatherings...