Word: contempts
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...this country, but for a time it seemed that that victory would be an empty one. Labor took the first oportunity of embarrassing business, at the beginning of a slight industrial upturn, and through its usual obstinacy and arrogance, failed to gain its ends, but winning instead the general contempt of the country. This has been the usual trend of labor difficulties in recent years, but the failure is due to the men who have dominated the organizations, and not to the laboring men themselves...
Then Bilbo was nabbed, haled into court on a contempt charge, sentenced to 30 days in the Oxford jail. At Oxford the chancellor of the University of Mississippi saw that Bilbo had three square meals a day. Released after ten days, Bilbo walked out of jail, climbed up on the back of a wagon, announced his second candidacy for the Governorship. During this campaign he took cognizance of State-wide gossip about his sex life. To a female audience The Man Bilbo cried: ''If these stories about The Man Bilbo are true, you've got to admit...
...Chicago last week one John A. Morrison, juror in an embezzlement trial, sucked at a whiskey bottle during the proceedings, hiccoughed all through recesses, was too drunk for coherence during the voting, had to be tubbed, caused a mistrial, was held for contempt of court, got ten days in jail...
...charges that the New Deal flouts the Constitution and regiments all U. S. economic life, some New Dealers were certain that the U. S. would promptly see through and repudiate ALL as a tool of selfish Old Dealers. Senator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma used his utmost term of contempt to tag ALL's members ? "gold dollar men." Said Relief Administrator Hopkins: "The League may be composed of right-thinking people but they are so far Right that no one will ever find them...
There was not a regular doctor in Chicago, in Illinois or in the U. S. last week who had anything but supreme contempt for the medical theories of "Dr." Oakley Smith and his 200 followers who helped him celebrate the 25th anniversary of Naprapathy. "Dr." Smith was a kind of chiropractor when he conceived these theories and invented the name "Naprapathy" from the Czech naprava ("correction") and the Greek pathos ("suffering"). Naprapaths claim that all disease is due to shrunken ligaments ("ligatights") pressing upon nerves. The naprapath tries to ease the pressure by manipulating the "ligatights," somewhat after the fashion...