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Word: condescending (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as the one new thing around, Ken Murray's vaudeville is by no means a treat. Part of its fantastic Hollywood success may stem, indeed, from its being just the kind of flesh & blood show a movie metropolis can condescend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Variety Show in Manhattan | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...agree that the Spellman-Roosevelt controversy is extremely distasteful but only because a man of his stature would attempt, or rather condescend, to enlighten such an obvious publicity seeker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 22, 1949 | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

...students at registration. We admit that our relations with the student body are not so close as they might be, and we should welcome additional help in improving them. It is devoutly to be wished, therefore, that next year instead of burying his talents, the polemical Prins will condescend to help us in productive work. Richard N. Swift...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Defends Grad School Council | 5/5/1949 | See Source »

...such events are like wars and earthquakes -huge blows of fate under which a man must either collapse or grin and buckle his belt. And the men of Brensham always choose to grin, because what saves them-and makes them more fabulous than life-size-is that they never condescend to be mean and sniveling mortals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Author in Wonderland | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

...kept thinking how wonderful it was of Leo to condescend to ask me, a "Harvard" girl, down to that marvelous Yale school! I've heard so much about, it. Leo's father went to Yale, and to hear him talk-about Mory's,and the huge Gothic buildings, and Mory's and the jovial parties at the fraternities and at Mory's, and the great Yale Bowl, and the beer at Mory's-maybe his father wrote, "Shall I Wastin'". If Yale had a girl's school...

Author: By Bunny Wintergreen, | Title: So You're Off to New Haven, eh... | 11/21/1947 | See Source »

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