Word: contempts
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Professor Frankfurter, like many of his colleagues, has found many phases of our social and legal system unsatisfactory, and has not hesitated to attack them. When this is formulated as a charge, one can only answer with deep gravity and with deeper contempt that it is perfectly true. But in another sense, there is a certain guerdon won by any liberal who incurs the enmity of the D. A. R. Professor Frankfurter will join a remarkably white company. Jane Adams, who was vulgar enough to feed starving immigrants and to educate them, achieved disrepute with the feminine Torquemadas...
...hired Lawyer Arthur Garfield Hays, sued for $250,000. Defense lawyers insisted that the American's caption meant only that the wrestler was as strong as a gorilla. But Wrestler Zbyszko was able to show that his wife had learned to call him "gorilla" as a term of contempt. The jury found libel, awarded...
...civics. It took place in the headlines and in Room 304 in the U. S. Senate office building where sits the Senate Committee on Banking & Currency. Defendant Mitchell had been charged with no crime. But had he failed to appear, he would have been clapped promptly into jail ("contempt of the Senate"). There was no attorney for the defense. There was, however, a prosecution. It consisted of 1) six to a dozen Senators and 2) a man quite as remarkable as any of the Senators, Ferdinand Pecora...
...think of them. No name for a dog carries less than the nasty meaning unconsciously given fragrant words like "stink," nor has any animal gained such universal, nay, such high praise. All who learn to read know the foul loathing for the hound which Shakespeare held, the fear and contempt which the beast inspired in the ancients; those who have no knowledge of the creature's filthy ways have idealized it as did Barrle in Wendy's Nana; those who tread in false fear or forbidden paths see a Cerberus in every canine form. But men who own dogs...
...throwing Mrs. Ward. Under cross-examination by Lawyer John William Guider she admitted referring to Griffith as "lacto bacillus acidopholus-because he would sour the milk of human kindness"; and as a "dirty rotten turtle egg" because someone had told her that was the Chinese expression of supreme contempt...