Word: contempts
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...club of public ethics this sincere patriot should not trust the destiny of a single Prussian grenadier, and the club itself should not expect him to do so. If war comes, Mr. Hitler will bear a heavy burden of guilt, but in that guilt we cannot include charges of contempt for an organization which weighs so little as the League with its own members, which is to everyone only an ambiguous symbol of pacifism, the receptacle for a shrinking pennyworth of good international intentions...
...Attribute your telegram to inexperience or ignorance or both. Therefore I hope the committee will not proceed against you for contempt. But do not offend again...
...nothing ... has frittered away its scant appropriation . . . has attempted to discredit the record by representing that your authority is limited under the resolution. That resolution is immeasurably broader than the resolution which made a record that threw Vare and Lorimer out of the Senate. . . . Speaking of contempt, Senator, why do you refuse to proceed against Long's henchman, Seymour Weiss, treasurer of the Long racketeering machine, who as a witness treated your committee to all the insults and contemptuousness that could be handed out? . . . The women of Louisiana cannot be frightened off by any such telegram as yours...
...company clerk, much better as a baseball reporter. After Satevepost readers had long guffawed over the frothy imbecilities of his "You Know Me Al" stories, highbrow critics discovered in him a painstaking artist with a phonographic ear for U. S. folk speech, in his enameled tales a gentle contempt for the people he wrote about. To the late William Bolitho he was "the greatest and sincerest pessimist American literature has yet produced." An owl-eyed, saturnine man, given to one-word epigrams, he was once asked for his list of the ten most beautiful English words. His list: gangrene, flit...
...Vagabond has passed through the turmoil of being finger-printed by the Bursar's minions and catalogued in the files of the Summer School like a rare bird's egg, with his collar dampened as much as his ardour and a fine healthy contempt for geographical distribution blanks, salmon-colored cards which the officials call pink, and courses which may or may not give him a half credit for an A.B. The Vagabond is a large man and impatient of all these peccadilloes. His spirit rides a swift charger and he would be off somewhere in the country, dawdling...