Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...become the fashion, in education, in literature, to attack the "genteel" tradition of New England, to compare it--unfavorably, of course,--with the breezy lack of tradition of the West. And the hostility, the suspicion with which Harvard is regarded, is simply a part of that general contempt of the New America for an ancient--and eternal--ideal that stubbornly refuses to die in spite of the threats of democratic dogma...
Theodore Roosevelt, who was then president, recorded his contempt of the Bogota Treaty which was made after this revolution. He expressed himself in these words: "I did not lift my finger to incite the revolutionists. Colombia was solely responsible for her own humiliation, and she had not then and has not now, one shadow of claim upon us moral or legal; all the wrong that was done, was done by her." And now certain interests are trying to "rail-road" this treaty--which has never been ratified--through the present Congress...
...middle-west has decided not to "play" his Bostonian classmates to get himself introduced into their social sets, he firmly resolves to despise these men who out-shine him in their appearance at debutante dances, etc. Having resolved to despise them he hunts for reasons to justify his contempt: he ridicules their accent, their mannerisms, their dress. In short they are not like him, and they are having a gayer time, therefore, they are not to be despised as sissies and cads...
Participation in any college activity requires at least average intelligence: in nine cases out of ten the player "flunks" through sheer laziness. The athlete who breaks training the day before the game has always been subject to the contempt of his follows. But the man who goes on probation deserves just as little commiseration; he injures his team no less...
...enforcement of the prohibition amendment and the Volstead law is a model of clarity and logic. It disposes of all opposition in the epigrammatic declaration: "The honest enforcement of the law may lend to its modification: the tolerated disobedience of it can only breed disorder and create contempt for all law." In these words Governor Miller sets forth a fundamental principle. There has been a strong tendency here abouts to place the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead law in a class apart and to talk and act as if a citizen were free to obey or to violate them...