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Word: contempts (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hyphenate Handbills | 7/2/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Imaginary Interviews: Jun. 18, 1923 | 6/18/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 6/14/1923 | See Source »

Editors do not put judges in jail for contempt of press, but they are not helpless?as judges know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail and Fines | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jail and Fines | 5/19/1923 | See Source »

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