Word: contempts
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...Wordsworth at all, think of him as a rustic herbivore who wrote, among reams of rhymed prose, some 100 sonnets glorifying the Church of England. By some literary freak he also managed to write the Ode on Intimations of Immortality. Then he earned Robert Browning's versified contempt ("Just for a handful of silver he left us") by changing his politics, later becoming poet laureate of England...
...matter. This subjection is the common lot, although each spirit will bear it differently, in proportion to its own virtue. No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt. Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved but loved sorrowfully because of the threat of destruction that constantly hangs over...
Asked a member from Somerset, Pa.: couldn't we ding Marshall Field for some other reason than the effect of competition? Replied an A.P. lawyer: it was a little late to think up new reasons. Member McCormick summed it up: "The Court will hold us in contempt if we don't elect the "applicants. Therefore. I second the motion...
...believes that Henley can best be understood through the psychological theories of the late Alfred ("Inferiority Complex") Adler (TIME, Sept. 10). Years of suffering and physical inferiority, argues Author Buckley, aroused in Henley a fervent, bigoted passion for the vigorous, "masculine" things of life and art, and a corresponding contempt for all that was "effeminate" and decadent. The theme of Author Buckley's study is the effect of this "activist" philosophy upon English literature in the last 20 years of the 19th Century...
Martha Raye was ordered by a Detroit judge to show cause why she should not be cited for contempt of court-for failing to testify in a divorce suit in which a Detroiter's wife charged that her husband associated with a "Miss X" of Hollywood. Snapped the judge: "Martha Raye doesn't mean any more to this court than Joe Zilch...