Word: contempts
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...teacher who shares this hostility] may show his contempt for poetry openly...
...show's producer (Larry Parks) has staked his life as collateral against a gangster's backing of the show. He plans to put on one of the most sodden of those productions whose success depends on a snarling contempt for any form of art higher than a Rockette's hip joint. Terpsichore nags him into trying the only thing worse: really bad "Art." Played her way, the show flops in Philadelphia. Played his way, it is a smash hit in New York. At this point Terpsichore is reluctant about returning to heaven; she has, of course, fallen...
Pudgy, owlish Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed to be the Comintern's boss in the U.S., was convicted again. On June 27, he had been sentenced to a year in jail and fined $1,000 for contempt of Congress. Last week, a month and a day after he was brought to trial in Wiashington's District Court, a federal jury of seven men and five women found him guilty of passport fraud. Maximum penalty: five years and $5,000 fine...
...left the kappa and returned to Japan. He could never again discover the entrance to their country, was finally confined by skeptical authorities. He regarded his stay in the asylum with resignation, remembering the words of Mag, the kappa philosopher: "The wisest way of life is to look with contempt at the customs of an age, but nonetheless to live so as not in the least to destroy them...
Charged with "aggravated contempt and gross breach of privilege," Allighan would be lucky to get off with a reprimand from the Speaker. Parliament could, if it wished, suspend him, expel him, or even confine him in the Tower of the House. Herbert Morrison announced to the House that Allighan has gone to South Africa "on medical advice...