Word: contempts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...socialist and farmer-labor and prohibitionist platforms; I don't know and don't want to know anything about the "socialist labor" and "single tax" parties. And I strongly suspect that most "respectable" people feel just about as I do. If they disagree it is only in degree of contempt. Why then should those of us who are not professionally obliged to keep up the dismal pretense of enthusiasm about the wretched business--why should we waste time talking or thinking about the election, and why should we bother to vote? E. P. CHASE...
...final success, it can only land us in hopeless confusion at home and abroad. To attempt to employ such a substitute as this argues more than the usual degree of Senatorial unreason. As a piece of political juggling, it is altogether admirable; as constructive statesmanship, it is beneath contempt...
...cent limit. They would then, as soon as these shops had become established, begin to sell strong beers under two per cent labels. It was notorious that they would even sell whiskey and wine under these two per cent labels. The purpose was to bring into contempt all prohibition legislation and to nullify the wishes of the people concerned...