Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miners struck "volun-tarily," according to Howat. He and other officials were ordered to appear before the District court, but refused, saying: "We do not recognize the court's authority or existence. Judges do not know the coal mining business. We refuse to answer questions." He was jailed for contempt of court. Given permission by the sheriff to speak from the balcony of jail, he called Governor Allen of Kansas "a skunk of a Governor...
...America, politics is not a gentleman's vocation, as it should be. Politics is a "dirty" game; but it will never be clean until the young intellectuals of the country cease to regard it as beneath their contempt...
...Ragtime Band" with a vigor which brought out remarkably well the musical richness of the piece. It must have taken a great deal of courage for a singer with a reputation for artistry such as Mme. Gauthier's to attempt songs which have so long been an object of contempt and ridicule among those who profess a knowledge of the art, but she was amply rewarded by an audience which showed by its enthusiastic applause that she had revealed to it a wealth of color and artistic vigor in American jazz. George Gershwin played the accompaniments for this group...
...arched eyebrow over the askance eye of the intellectual has been lifted in deprecation ever since the high name of comedy has been debased by its application to "comic strips." Comic strips, the horseplay of journalism, the daily joy of my honest burghers, have suffered long the stings of contempt. Seldom have they been excoriated so devastatingly or on such grounds as by Alejandro Hoch, an editor from the Argentine, who is visiting these parts. These are his winged words describing this danger to civilization...
Last week Attorney General Daugherty was consulted. In accordance with Mr. Daugherty's recommendation the President remitted the sentence, without condoning the Comptroller's "contempt." Said Mr. Daugherty of the Comptroller: "It is conceivable that he will be more disappointed and punished by not being required to go to jail...