Word: contempts
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...chief of the Standard Oil Co. of Indiana and stout friend of Oilman Sinclair, if he had "received" any of the Continental profits. "No," answered Oilman Stewart. He declined to say if he knew anyone who did "receive" the profits. For his silence the Senate indicted Col. Stewart for contempt. Also having learned that one-fourth of the Continental profits had been delivered to Col. Stewart the Senate indicted Col. Stewart for perjury. His explanation was that by "received" he thought the Senators had meant "profited personally." He admitted he had "received" the profits physically, "as a messenger...
Acquitted, last spring, of contempt, Col. Stewart went on trial for perjury last month. Last week, again, he was acquitted, or at least "aquibbled." Conducted by "million-dollar" counsel (small, snappy, whitehaired Lawyer Frank J. Hogan), the Stewart defense succeeded in shifting the crux of the case from the honesty of Col. Stewart's double interpretation of the verb, "to receive," to the legality of the Senators' second questioning of Col. Stewart. Chairman of the Public Lands Committee at the time of the second Stewart hearing was boyish, officious, inexperienced Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota...
...exercise of his profession, he is curiously without legal protection, or social position. According to the whim of the moment the man he interviews may paste him at the first question, or sneer, or smile. If the reporter develops as a result of this a cynical contempt for all the other estates, a perpetual grouch, an inferiority complex, it is not surprising...
...Rupert Hughes did to Washington, he not only is far from the truth, but he is as ridiculous as one hastening to protect the Washington monument from being assaulted with a fly-swatter. If he can read into that speech an anarchistic attempt to destroy or bring under contempt an institution in our history and language, he has a surprisingly tabloid mind for one who would seem to be painfully Bostonian...
...Jerusalem at the "Wailing Wall," the last remnant of Solomon's Temple. . . . You have treated the occurrence as humorous, and, apparently greatly pleased with the term, have at least three times in a short article referred to the outraged worshippers as "ululators," and, to subject them to further contempt, say "They screeched, they snorted, they piped, they yauped...