Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus with Verne and other aids people are beginning to have a contempt for the stories of mysterious denizens of the deep. Sea-serpents will be found crouching among the water lilies of every garden pool, and the next problem in upholstering will be how to transform the octopus into the parlor couch...
...were indicted. Two other men, one a labor leader, the other a detective, were subpoenaed to give evidence. They declined to talk on the ground that it might incriminate them. The State granted them immunity. They still refused to talk. They were sentenced to six months in jail for contempt of court. They jumped bail, one was recaptured, the other gave himself up. They went to prison...
...have always heard of Harvard Loyalty, and have always thought of it as something sacred. It grieves me to see it thus displayed. I don't believe that any Harvard organization turns down good constructive criticism, but I know that it finds beneath contempt an intolerant attitude which constitutes not criticism but an ill-considered attack. And I believe that while no Harvard organization wants to be patted on the back all the time, neither does it care to eat the vituperation of a dyspeptic critic...
...skill with which the author has revealed to us the ties that bind father, mother, and son that the chief beauty of the play lies. Roderick contradicts and corrects his parents with all the impudence and contempt for their views so characteristic-or supposedly so-of young men and women of the present generation. They, in return, treat him with amused tolerance. But behind it all one feels a wealth of affection that is beautiful as it is strong...
Have we overdrawn our picture? Perhaps we have-they say familiarity breeds contempt. At any rate, we are glad to be in Virginia. We are glad to be in the home of the noblest, finest and most human set of people we have ever set eyes upon...