Word: contempts
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...small banks were not helped to the extent that he claimed. Mary a former staunch Republican realizes the, fatuousness of having trusted the departing administration. Audacity and insincerity comparable to Tammany's might have provoked admiration, but puerile blunders, too blatantly so to be successfully concealed have evoked merely contempt...
...addition to the above-mentioned charge, Dubois was also accused of treating his superior officer with contempt. The charge drawn up in the official document read as follows: "In that Eugene DuBois, now a junior grade Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, while so serving on board the U.S.S. Boylston, did, on or about November 2, 1932, while officer-of-the-deck of the said ship, say in a disrespectful and contemptuous manner to one Edward Hallett Preble, then a Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, who was then and there in the execution of his office, 'You are an incompetent misfit; who told...
Those statements, and many another, were part of a News petition asking that Publisher Bonfils be adjudged in contempt of court. Reason: He had refused to answer questions-before-trial in his own libel suit against the News...
...worthless" were dumped on the U. S. market. The State Department "without sanction of law" usurped the function of passing on these loans and was therefore "implicated" in the disaster. When the Senate unanimously ordered it to desist as financial censor, Secretary Stimson brushed aside the order "with a contempt that entitled him to impeachment." Declared Senator Glass...
...marchers are ready to attack. But the watchdogs have roused the "victims" who join hands and dance to the music of a flute made from a jaguar's leg bone. The music is supposed to make them ferocious as jaguars. As they dance they sing of defiance, contempt, bravery, boasting...