Word: contempts
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...MacCracken, onetime (1926-29) Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, longtime secretary of the American Bar Association, heard himself sentenced to ten days in the District jail for contempt...
...That," pronounced Vice President Garner, "is the order of the Senate." It was also the order of the Senate that Defendant Brittin serve a like term. Mr. Brittin had destroyed some Northwest Airways correspondence. The other two, Western Air Express officials, were purged of contempt because they had later returned to the Senate committee letters taken from the MacCracken office...
...Last man to be jailed for contempt of the Senate was Oilman Harry Sinclair in 1929. Oilman Sinclair, however, was prosecuted, sentenced to three months' imprisonment by the District of Columbia Supreme Court on the Senate's complaint...
...present Gullahs perform the same homely functions today, and the Civil War, (the only war they recognize) has left them little changed. Indeed, the grizzled old deacons are constantly harking back to the good old days, and the occasional automobile seen in those parts is regarded with mild contempt by eyes which, in brighter days, have seen the Colonel spin swiftly past in his glittering coach and four...
...portrayal of the community as a whole. The best of the individual portraits is that of the old negro foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect and aloof from his fellows. His contempt for the "pobuckras," as the negroes term white people of mean extraction, is equalled only by the amused disdain in which he holds Yankees and other commercial persons. The little white church in the grove he has never entered...