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...have nothing but contempt for those who hate...
...behind its technical development. He studies this social lag in the personality of a widower, Dr. Axton Talley (Philip Merivale), who is a brilliant surgeon of bodies but scarcely even aware of emotional anatomy. He has nothing but anger for his daughter's adolescent radicalism, nothing but contempt for his son's inability to stomach the medical school dissecting room. When the doctor gets engaged to a poetess (Ina Claire) she leads him into abortive attempts to approach his children. But finally his inability to move out of his insensitivity so alarms her that she breaks the engagement...
...substantial proportion" of the texts were critical of the U. S. form of government and held up to contempt the system of private enterprise...
...treatise. Jacques, matured and forceful, is a respected leader in a colony of revolutionists in Switzerland. He has decided that what he wants is a part in a revolutionary world change, but his soul is still troubled. He has a consuming pity for the mass of men, a great contempt for their rulers, but he lacks a blind faith in revolutionary slogans and formulas, and worse, he distrusts human nature, including that of revolutionists. "A man," he feels, "who is capable of ... brutal, bloodthirsty acts, and of calling them 'acts of justice,' such a man, when the battle...
...activity. Many months might elapse before Maverick Ford could be saddled and ridden, like other well-regulated industrial horses; many more before he would work in harness with labor and the Government. But the Supreme Court ruling made the Ford Motor Co. and all Ford officials subject to unlimited contempt of court sentences by the Sixth Circuit Court if they intimidate, coerce, threaten or interfere with employes or union organizers. Ford will also have to reinstate with back pay the 23 workers who were fired after the beating up of CIOrganizer Frankensteen at Gate No. 4 overpass to the Rouge...