Word: contempts
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...published in Forces. Spoke up indomitable Marthe: "I would be ashamed to make my living the way you do. Justice is rotten and when I am in the presence of its representatives it gives me the greatest pleasure to tell them so.'' The court slapped on a contempt of court charge and sentenced Marthe to three months in jail...
...Skoda, Schneider-Creusot) had contributed to his campaign expenses. When, however, he was challenged to make a direct denial that this was so, he stormed from the witness stand, cursed the opposing lawyer for a Jew, never specifically answered the question, and was subsequently fined 1,000 marks for contempt of court, as a result. De Wendel and Schneider, according to their immemorial custom, said nothing, and nowhere has a denial of the accusation ever been made...
...received $5,000,000 each. Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The original "Commodore" Corneel Vander Bilt left control of New York Central and $90,000,000 of his $100,000,000 estate to his eldest son. Dour, morose Son William Henry was the butt of his father's jests and contempt until one day he skinned his father on the price of a scowload of dung from Staten Island. William Henry more than doubled his inheritance, left $200,000,000 to be divided between his two sons, Cornelius and William Kissam. Last week when the will of Cornelius' widow, Alice...
...free and went home. But prison had not cured him, for now his friends were the hardest of hard criminals. He resumed his career with petty robberies in Indianapolis, got enough cash to buy a fast car and guns, turned to bank robbing for which his contempt for human life fitted him. Within three months after his release from prison three banks alone yielded him over $40,000. With his new wealth and daring he plotted the release of his jailbird cronies whom he supplied with smuggled arms. Four days before their successful break at Michigan City, the police caught...
...nothing of the factory's detail but who had been recently imported to cut costs, rush orders through. When the lights went out and the machinery stopped, Carl blamed his chief enemy, Hagen, a good workman of 20 years' service in the factory who never hid his contempt of Carl. While Carl sent his yes-men blundering through the darkness on futile errands, Hagen and the old hands quietly handled the emergency...