Word: contempts
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...have always heard of Harvard Loyalty, and have always thought of it as something sacred. It grieves me to see it thus displayed. I don't believe that any Harvard organization turns down good constructive criticism, but I know that it finds beneath contempt an intolerant attitude which constitutes not criticism but an ill-considered attack. And I believe that while no Harvard organization wants to be patted on the back all the time, neither does it care to eat the vituperation of a dyspeptic critic...
...skill with which the author has revealed to us the ties that bind father, mother, and son that the chief beauty of the play lies. Roderick contradicts and corrects his parents with all the impudence and contempt for their views so characteristic-or supposedly so-of young men and women of the present generation. They, in return, treat him with amused tolerance. But behind it all one feels a wealth of affection that is beautiful as it is strong...
Have we overdrawn our picture? Perhaps we have-they say familiarity breeds contempt. At any rate, we are glad to be in Virginia. We are glad to be in the home of the noblest, finest and most human set of people we have ever set eyes upon...
...known to the students of Yale University that the Italians of New Haven hold in contempt this representative of despotic and reactionary Government...
...Supreme Court of D. C. for breach of promise against Miss Ethelyn Chrane, a young woman who was at one time my secretary. I asked $50,000 damages, alleging that the plaintiff by refusing to keep a promise to marry me had 'brought me into ridicule and contempt' and had prevented me from paying court to 'other eligible and marriageable ladies.' " Dr. Henry Van Dyke, former Minister to the Netherlands: "A North Carolina divine, reading a sermon of mine preached in New York, offered me $1,000 if I ' or any other Biblical infidel...