Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...widely admired as he once was. Grant that a man is sincere in trying to do what he is not fitted to do, that will not prevent men mingling pity with their admiration. And pity, when too frequently aroused, is in danger of turning into a mild contempt...
Because of contempt of court, three newspapermen of the South were cast into jail and another was fined...
...Birmingham, Ala., the editor, the managing editor and a reporter of The Birmingham Post published an article telling that a man on trial for murder had also been indicted for flogging and kidnapping. Judge H. P. Heflin of the Circuit Court cited them for contempt of court, because their articles " prejudiced " the cause of the man on trial for murder...
...made my way into the main lobby of the hotel, I decided that the surest way to force people of this sort to feel my contempt was to use the place just as they do, in their absurd dress suits. Accordingly, I edged through the crowd gathered in the lobby to a man in uniform standing in their midst, evidently one of the higher flunkeys. When I reached him, I said in a clear, careful voice, "Call me a bell...
...called his own name outside his lighted window, had never heard of an earlier McKean, the senior who leaped from the roof of Harvard Hall to that of Hollis, after a futile attempt to freeze up the bell. Already freshman caps and freshman rules of conduct were held in contempt; yet there were still those who recalled the abolition of "Bloody Monday" as a loss to be mourned...