Word: contempts
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...reference to the reported decisions would show the contrary to be true? Why bring the Elk Hills Reservation and Pearl Harbor contracts before the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals when the subject-matter is within the jurisdiction of the Ninth Circuit? Why involve the late Attorney General in contempt of court when newspapers a few months old show that the charge was one of conspiracy to defraud the United States? Who is M. A. Dangherty? What did he have to do with King? Of course, such examples portray the absence of that minimum of labor and keenness that should typity...
...profound contempt for this uneasy little king, with his know-it-all air, and his face like a plum; what was more the king had touched him on a sensitive spot. All his life he was annoyed that people made him paint their faces and refused to give a guinea for his hayricks and his cottages. Portraiture was fashionable. Landscape was not. Well, one lived in the world; one painted portraits. Sir Joshua had done it; scuttling Romney did it; Thomas Lawrence got himself into the Royal Academy at 21 by doing it. Venuses and Adonises. Even the king managed...
...result of all these cases investigated by the Senate Committee; the wind of suspicion shifted to Attorney General Daugherty. He was tried for contempt of court; and shortly afterwards M. A. Daugherty, and Eing were calloff to the stand on a bribery charge in the Alien Property Custodian question...
...have asked a banker 20 years ago for the financing of a cinema concern would have been of no avail. He had probably never heard of motion pictures. Or, if he had, he held them in contempt as grotesque novelties of penny arcades, honkytonks. And he classed the cinema entrepreneur as a probably illiterate and possibly dirty "outsider." Today the banker reaches out for cinema investments, which are all the more attractive because they represent a $1,500,000,000 amusement industry operated on a cash basis. Not one of the 45,000,000 people who in the course...
...proclamation standing before them. Tiger cat Pilsudski, no doubt secretly intrigued by the defiance of his mice, turned the incident into high comedy by commanding the First Lancers Regiment to march twice around the Parliament Building in full war regalia. Having thus shown his physical encirclement of and contempt for the parliamentarians Pilsudski called off his troops, last week, retired into his palace, brooded upon whether to take in deadly earnest the jest of Opposition news organs which satirically hailed him as: "PILSUDSKI AUGUSTUS, IMPERATOR...