Word: condescended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little glass animals that is her only solace, she offers him her favorite, saying, "Here's an example of one, if you care to see it." In the current H.D.C. production, she takes at this moment a quick, frightened, intensely poignant glance at him, to see if he will condescend to look at the glass unicorn she treasures so. Both to the interpreting mind and the receiving heart, the glance means more than the line...
When Mr. A. does condescend to quote sentences which exist, he substitutes three dots for crucial grammatical features. He is thus able to turn English into Incoherence. His careless pen cannot even copy titles of articles correctly. By dropping an 's' from "Pigs" Mr. A. transforms the author's scholarly announcement of her subject into name-calling...
Glad fo see FIME Magazine is regressing fo fhe old use of fhe "F" in fheir arficles. Call special affenfion to "Cliff" Hofel June [16]. For modernists, however, couldn't we condescend to call a spayde a spade, a Cliff a Clift...
...also hope that Mr. Barber will condescend to take up another job of much-raking which, although not as serious as that which has befallen the HYRC, surely rates the attention of our B. M. O. C. friend--and that is the alleged selling of Yardling dance tickets printed at $2.00 for $1.00--a recent change. It is rumored that this is a violation of statute, or at least foul play. I say let's clean up this mess, this corruption. And I say let's get a proven man to carry the torch, a stalwart champion of the rights...
...results of this unofficial race, no write-in ballots will be counted. We believe that the votes should be accredited, however, since we think Oliver A. Yabook would prove an exemplary Jubilee Chairman. And, in the event that Lamont Dupont should lose, we are hoping that he will condescend to run for the HYRC presidency...