Word: contemptable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week The Dartmouth (undergraduate daily) aroused by past indignities to chaperons, plumping for abolition of chaperons, editorialized: "Many of us are unwilling to ask our mothers, or anyone we respect, to bear the brunt of universal disregard, and even the shade of contempt which cannot but arise from the office of chaperon as it exists at present...
...today reads as follows: "Whoever wilfully blasphemes the holy name of God by denying, cursing, or contumeliously reproaching God, His cration, government or final judging of the world, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching Jesus Christ or the Holy Ghost, or by cursing or contumeliously reproaching or exposing to contempt or ridicule the Holy Word of God contained in the Holy Scriptures shall be punished by imprisonment in gaol for not more than one year, or by a fine of not more than $300, and may also be bound to good behavior...
Well, after two or three years the quondam Princetonian returns with a varicose accent, a mouth full of hot mush, a dandified swagger, and a fairly general contempt for things in this bally o country...
...Economic Policy" announced by Lenin when he found it advisable to allow a certain amount of private business to be carried on by persons who are called in Russia with abysmal contempt "Nepmen...
Quickly the Curtiss people retaliated. They got the court to order the Handley Page entry held in the U. S. as evidence of contempt of court. Circumstances: In 1921, the Curtiss Company won an injunction restraining Handley Page "henceforth and forever" from importing any aviation products to the U. S., because the English company was using certain Curtiss devices. In England Curtiss had no redress. But they could keep Handley Page out of the U. S. The revival of their injunction was a Curtiss move to prove that Handley Page was prosecuting the $300,000 lawsuit without "clean hands." Probable...