Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known to the students of Yale University that the Italians of New Haven hold in contempt this representative of despotic and reactionary Government...
...Supreme Court of D. C. for breach of promise against Miss Ethelyn Chrane, a young woman who was at one time my secretary. I asked $50,000 damages, alleging that the plaintiff by refusing to keep a promise to marry me had 'brought me into ridicule and contempt' and had prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel...
...looked at me with a confident smile. "This will wither them!" he exclaimed. At last a permanent record of our contempt where all will see it. This is a triumph...
Editors do not put judges in jail for contempt of press, but they are not helpless?as judges know...
...Memphis, Tenn., Gold V. Sanders, editor of the Memphis Press, fell into contempt of court and was fined $300 and costs by Federal Judge J. Will Ross...