Word: contemptibility
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...meeting of the Liberal Party held in London, ex-Premier Lloyd George referred to the "contempt" with which the Labor Party treats the Liberals. His charge was that there was no system of consultation between the two Parties and that the Laborites seemed to expect the Liberals to be at their beck and call. He declared that things had begun with Labor contempt for the Liberal Party as a whole and had now reached the stage where individual Liberals were openly reviled...
Continental critics, however, in whom familiarity has bred the usual contempt, do not hesitate to strip these ancient institutions of the glamor which for the American at least obscures the defects. A French author, in a recent novel, accuses Oxford of all places of regarding the student "as a high school boy . . . who lives together with his fellows under a severe discipline that regulates even the hours of his going out." The student body is cynically divided into athletes and esthetes--of whom the latter are rare. No disillusionment could be more cruel if one is to retain...
Corliss Lamont is the most conspicuous of many prominent undergraduates in many colleges who are in revolt against what they call the "stupidity" of preceding undergraduate generations. They have a genial contempt for the traditional extra-curriculum fetish of the campus-the emphasis on athletics, college papers, clubs, "honors." Their informal program is to go into their extra-curriculum activities, beat the campus boys at their own game, and then, with the prestige so acquired, to sound the praises of more excellent things, such as the pursuit of truth...
...reserve, but could not drain away any considerable portion of the oil. C Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of Teapot Dome, who refused to testify before the Committee when summoned for the sixth time, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for violating Section 102, of the Revised Statutes-contempt of the Senate by refusing to testify on the grounds that the Public Lands Committee had no authority to require his testimony. Mr. Sinclair intends to fight the case to the Supreme Court and get a final decision on the power of Congress to compel testimony before its committees. The indictment...
Professor Mcllwaine makes out a very good case, but one that is in many, places open to attack. His Irish analogy, for example, is somewhat strained in places. He passes over with scant attention the imperiousness and contempt of George III for the colonies. He does not emphasize the fact that the colonial struggle was one phase of the general struggle throughout the British possessions for representative self-government, was, as Professor Hart puts it (Formation of the Union) "a part of the struggle between popular and autocratic principles of government in England". In short, Professor Mcllwaine's interpretation...