Word: contempts
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...Rutherfordton, N. C., a man charged with assaulting his wife pleaded guilty, said he would prove it. Thereupon he strode across the courtroom, smacked her face. Sentence: two years for assault, six months for contempt...
...suspicious psychologist; or tears around in Gail Patrick's leopard-spot dressing gown. And there is Granville Bates's first-rate bit as a dumb, irate, fuddyduddy judge who, having declared Irene Dunne legally dead, declares her legally alive so he can hold her in contempt of court...
...consent decree Horblit is rendered liable for contempt of court if he ever attempts to publish again or to sell notes which violate copyrights on the seven books...
...these things directly, or even indicate exactly why they may be true. And yet, his talks are shot through with annoyance at anyone who does not already accept them as facts. The President seems to be fighting against a dark form of ignorance for which he has the supremest contempt, but against which he has to play a canny game, with a few cards on the table, but more up the sleeve...
England is at war with Germany because she feels her domineering role threatened. The attitude of the majority of her people toward the United States-unless they have visited us-has always been one of contempt and derision-until our need is felt as in the last World War. Then it changes and we are told, "Look what is happening to your English-speaking countrymen. Unless you lend a hand this may easily happen...