Word: contempts
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...with us!" When he wanted to, Tobey could be withering. Gambler Frank Erickson was goaded by Tobey's needling into admitting that he was a bookmaker-an admission that led indirectly to Erickson's jail sentence. And Frank Costello was all but beneath Tobey's frosty contempt. "What have you ever done for your country?" Tobey thundered-and listened contemptuously to Costello's halting reply: "I pay my taxes...
Silvio Capuana could never forget the poverty of his youth, or the pain and contempt it had brought him in the Apennine village of Contrada, where he was born 60 years ago. Reared in a two-room hovel swarming with flies, brothers and sisters, all as dirty and hungry as himself, he had spent his childhood working long hours in the local wheatfields for a few pennies a day, resenting the shouts of harsh masters and dreaming of a better life. As soon as he was old enough, he fled to seek his fortune in Canada...
When Silvio came back to Contrada in 1933, he was 40 years old, a man of substance, with a real pearl stickpin in his cravat. He built a luxurious villa outside the village, and proceeded to show his contempt for the Contradese in a perverse display of ostentation and charity. He refused to enter the village but gave generously to the local church, and twice each year he would drive his blooded Arab horse around the outskirts to the back door of a house in which some Contradese girl cried her heart out because her family lacked money...
...road, by burying his nose in books until his eyes dimmed and his skin grew waxen with the pallor of lamplight. Carmine's studies brought him no money, but they helped make him a schoolmaster and a politician, full of respect for the ordered and privileged past and contempt for illiterate successes such as that of Silvio...
...Texas,' said Thornton, a tone of contempt in his voice, 'we call that lynching, not justice...