Word: contemptable
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...public. The accounts of the Yale-Harvard game, given by the New York Clipper and other papers, could not have been written without some basis to sustain the charge. Yale, at last realizing the force of this charge has been compelled to treat it with something besides brow-beating contempt. - [Nassan (Princeton...
...institution that desires to be classed among the first schools of America, that boasts of its willingness to aid its pupils in the free and fearless discussion of all the problems that now occupy the attention of the learned world, cannot fail to bring home well-deserved derision and contempt to the fossil representatives of a past age and society...
...police commissioners of New York yesterday afternoon received an opinion from the corporation council on the issue between the police and the bookmakers at Jerome Park. It says that pending the present injunction the police cannot make arrests without being adjudged guilty of contempt of court...
...have hurled, with great effect, the bolts of anathema from his elevated and important seat, and, by a vigorous two-column editorial, have thus once more appeased his fastidious sense of decorum and propriety. What could have been the cause of those frequent and bitter outbursts of indignation and contempt, which we now re-read as curiosities of journalistic literature, and why he should have been so cruel to us, is a question not easily answered. It may be that, at some remote period, he was a disappointed candidate for a degree, and, on this account, cherishes only bitter feelings...
...York has a "Thirteen Club," organized to show the contempt of the members for the popular superstition. There are many members, but only thirteen sit down to the same table...