Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Completely do we coincide with these views, also your [his] forceful footnote. Such publicity will bring home to these, and other so called "Sportsmen," the utter contempt such butchers are held in by a vast majority, thus arousing the present apathy to our fast disappearing wild life...
...appeals for a decision declaring him an equal partner with La Varre. But one J. T. Webb Jr. of Macon, Ga. was appointed by Federal court as commissioner to manage the newspapers pending their sale. La Varre ejected Commissioner Webb from the Columbia Record office, went to jail for contempt. He emerged to fight a petition by Partner Hall for the sale of the papers. He lost...
Henry Mason Day, jailed with Harry Ford Sinclair for contempt of court after the Teapot Dome oil investigation, was made a partner of Redmond & Co., Wall Street brokers...
...Casseres characterizes himself as a critic of, "intuitional tastes . . who does not analyze or weigh, but apotheosizes or slays". It is just such treatment he gives Mr. Mencken. He speaks of him as one who, "has everywhere an implied, if not explicit, contempt for those who use any dodge to escape reality. There is something tremendously courageous, almost sadistically so, in this attitude. It is probable, with him, that reality itself is an escape from something he fears more--sentiment, romance, mysticism... "Mencken never describes anything, he tears it to pieces and throws it in your face... His aesthetic...
...money, and its effects are largely confined to that land inside Brazilian boundaries; yet the national consul at New York was deluged by American volunteers. They have tendered their services, and are prepared to give their lives--to Brazil. There is nothing admirable about these men; they deserve the contempt leveled upon an assassin who kills because he likes the red color of blood...