Word: contempts
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...Boles knows how to relax, an Easter scene at an orphan asylum is injected, wherein Boles, dressed in a magician's garb complete with plug hat, wig, barbershop mustache and false nose (see cut), does tricks for the inmates. Silliest sequence: Miss Muir being sent to jail for contempt when, quizzed by Boles in a divorce action for which he is the plaintiff's attorney, she refuses to divulge to whom Boles's wife's lover was sending daily orchids...
...have been forever disgraced. When Gray-bull stole a wife in turn, her last husband, ravaged with grief, became a Crazy-Dog- Wishing-to-Die, pledged to court death. Dismayed, Gray-bull returned his new wife, whereupon the husband broke his pledge to die, was always looked on with contempt...
...woman's home when her husband appeared a few hours later, with two ransom bills in his pocket. The man, Harmon Waley, promptly confessed his part in the kidnapping. Suspended sentences or paroles after five convictions for burglary had given 24-year-old Harmon Waley a proper contempt for U. S. courts and prisons. It was soon discovered that the Waleys had spent a penniless year in Camden, N. J., boasted that they were "going to do something that would fix us for life," moved to Salt Lake on relief funds last January...
...frumpy women-the type that can be seen in London waiting for the emergence of any celebrity from Princess Marina to Polly Moran. Thin indeed was their cheer, but, fortunately for himself, James Ramsay MacDonald is a Scotsman. His inner light has always burned brighter than adversity, criticism or contempt. Like all Scots he is the captain of his soul. Last week, knowing perfectly well that the Empire considers him a traitor to the Labor friends of his youth and a mealymouthed, vain, vaporing shadow at Peace Conferences, Mr. MacDonald looked as he left No. 10 not downcast but happy...
Judge: You just think you are! Five dollars contempt! Next case...