Word: contempts
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...Chicago, one Lawrence OToole was last week cited for contempt of court. Reason: serving on a jury to try five boy gangsters who had held up a grocer and killed him for resisting, Lawrence O'Toole favored lenience on the ground that any "free American" should be "free to stage a holdup, if he could get away with...
...Insatiable longing for earthly goods, unbridled predominance of civil interests, ardent search for popular favor and contempt of legitimate authority and the word of God have shaken faith itself, or very gravely threaten...
...were embodied in a letter written by Captain K. G. B. Dewar of the Royal Oak to superior naval officials. The act of making known the contents of this secret letter laid open Commander Daniel to the grave, technical charge of "subverting discipline by bringing a superior officer into contempt...
Also due to Senator Nye, the name of Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, by whom Sinclair was lately tried and sentenced for contempt of court, was momentarily dragged into the case, then dropped when a mysterious package of '"bonds" turned out to be Christmas cards. The spirit of error spread. In the Senate, the Republican Robinson, from politically malodorous Indiana, arose and inquired if Harry F. Sinclair had not been a New York State horse-race commissioner from 1922 to 1925. Senator Nye jumped up and volunteered that it was his "understanding...
...simple plot; but within it are the jungle blues, the swaying bodies, the early-morning smells of Harlem-tied together by an urban Negro's unmistakable contempt for all things white. Many Caucasians will call it a lewd, crude book. It is certainly lacking in inhibitions. That is why it is more convincing, and hence a more significant work, than Carl Van Vechten's Nigger Heaven. "Liquor-rich laughter, banana-ripe laughter," says Jake. That, plus sad rolling eyes, is Harlem...