Word: contempts
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...reader must take this meretricious hash, whether he wants to or not. I have already written once before protesting against what I consider an insufferable impertinence on the part of modern publishers, to whom the advertiser is the commanding force and who treat the convenience of the readers with contempt. I recognize, of course, that the income from advertisements is necessary in meeting expenses, but it could be done in a decent way, so that the advertisements would be detachable and the reading matter remain preservable. But this suggestion, I have found, is treated with derision...
...Justice Corrie and Mr. Justice Defreitas. This was going to be an exemplary trial. The Arab prisoner would be grilled by an Arab prosecutor. There were plenty of prosecution witnesses, already lamenting and smiting their breasts in the corridor. With an easy sauntering stride and a smile of contempt for the witnesses Prisoner Sheik Taleb Maraka entered, was escorted to the dock by an armed policeman...
...President made a brief announcement that following the recommendation of the Attorney-General he would issue no pardon to Oilman Harry F. Sinclair, in jail for contempt of Senate (refusing to answer questions) and of court (jury shadowing), or to Henry Mason Day, Mr. Sinclair's henchman. Day has a passport to go to Europe next month when he will be released in the regular course of events. Sinclair must wait till November, in spite of his plea that his weight has fallen from 200 Ibs. to 185 Ibs., that stockholders are suffering from his absence...
...After the magazine was started, Convict Burns and Plaintiff del Pino were married "to the entire satisfaction and good wishes of his family" (his brother is a minister). When Greater Chicago prospered he "stayed away from home . . . found amusement and pleasure in gambling dens." treated Plaintiff Burns with "utter contempt...
Because he would not tell the New Jersey legislature how he made his fortune, Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City was arrested for contempt. Last week his great & good Democratic friend Vice-Chancellor John J. Fallen of New Jersey quashed his arrest as unconstitutional. Promptly Mayor Hague sailed for Europe in the imperial suite of the S. S. Berengaria...