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Word: condescending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...male or female. And later in this same article, the author mentions "the menace of Winsor." We think these remarks in very bad taste, especially when one considers the fact that the very girls whom the unknown author accuses of being unmaidenly are the same with whom he does condescend to associate at The Country Club and the Somerset. Perhaps he didn't recognize them without the bloomers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 11/20/1934 | See Source »

...Culture has been to make people healthier and happier. And there is absolutely no change in these commendable purposes. But we are endeavoring to reach a larger number of readers by making our presentation more interesting. We are sugar-coating the 'pill,' if we may so far condescend as to make such a reference to Physical Culture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Macfadden's Pill | 9/21/1931 | See Source »

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