Word: contempts
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...make a display of his wealth or education. In the practical affairs of life, when a man uses an odd or unusual word to convey a meaning that could have been as easily and as quickly conveyed by a more common word, he is held in contempt by his associates. You seem to go to great length to make a display of your vocabulary. You have had a penchant for using unusual words since your publication started, and I had occasion to write to you in a similar vein a few years ago, but "the seed apparently has fallen...
Equipped with these charges and with contempt of court rules, a reporter of Publisher Hearst's scurrilous Detroit Times approached Mrs. Hoffman, questioned her. The Times published her denials of the charges, along with this statement: "It seems to me," said she, "that someone is trying to keep this case from the jury...
...publication of this interview prompted Federal Judge Raymond to grant the motion of the Ford attorneys for a mistrial. He dismissed the charges against Mrs. Hoffman and started contempt proceedings against the Detroit Times. Thus, it was decided that the Hearst type of journalism is a greater menace to justice than the indiscreet babbling of a woman juror...
...TEXAS GUINAN FREE, HOLDS KISSING BEE" euphonistically wrote a New York headline writer. "Texas" Guinan, night club hostess, once virile out-of-door woman, helped her brother "Texas Tommy" herd cattle at the age of ten. Last week, freed by Federal Judge Thomas Thacher of charges of contempt of court for alleged violation of the Prohibition Law, she said: "Thank God, that's over," and plastered "Texas Tommy," Herman Edson, the club manager, ''Mike" Edelstein, her lawyer, with smacking busses. Dry agents testified in the trial, that they found the court's injunction reposing sedately...
...written, one must at least be forced to admit that the persistent efforts to get a new trial for these defendants need not be regarded in the light of an effort to justify or excuse their "red" radicalism, or to bring the administration of justice in the Commonwealth into contempt; but rather as an effort to see that all the safeguards are employed with the judicial system itself provides to protect its reputation for fairness by keeping men from being executed for one crime because they may perchance have shown themselves guilty of another. It has been hard...