Word: condescending
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...classically beautiful Barbara Ward, who handles most of the foreign news; onetime economics professor Donald Tyerman; Walter Hill, the Economist's German-educated industrial and trade expert. Staffers work in complete anonymity, submerging their own personalities to the paper's. Result: many a bigwig who would not condescend to see rank-&-file newsmen enjoys confiding in Economist writers...
Hard-boiled jockeys, with whom he likes to have breakfast at dawn, condescend to call him a "regular guy." To seasoned sportswriters, he is a nice kid with a flair for sportsmanship and a sincere desire to give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans...
...evacuate non-combatants from the city. Herr Hitler's variorum: "Sheer sympathy for women and children caused me to make an offer to those in command of Warsaw at least to let civilian inhabitants leave the city. . . . The proud Polish commander of the city did not even condescend to reply...
...lady in your household is ever compelled to hold a press conference, entreat her not to condescend to newspaper women.-Columnist Helen Essary in the Washington Times-Herald (in an open letter "to the next British Ambassador...
Further plans were made to have a few of the fathers of Freshmen give informal talks in the spring. Although nothing definite has been decided as yet. Edmond B. Spaeth, chairman of the Union Committee, said that he hopes Mr. Benchley and Admiral Byrd will condescend to speak...