Word: condescending
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...TIME afraid of saying things straight out? I am one of the people who drink per-haps more than their statistical share of the 63,000,000 gallons of California wine TIME mentions in the Jan. 3 issue. So I was delighted to see that you condescend far enough to admit that the wine I have been drinking since Prohibition ended-even, if you must know, before prohibition ended-is remotely fit to drink, despite the fact that it is not poured by a reverent waiter from a bottle covered with cobwebs. I have seen that admitted before, but only...
TIME, how could you, how could you, how could you! The Lowells are a pretty decent tribe. They condescend to speak to the Cabots. It is the clan of the Cabots who, traditionally, converse only with God [TIME, Sept. 6]. And the word isn't speak-it is talk. I visited the grave of my life-long friend, Dr. John C. Bossidy, and, sure enough, he had turned over. Who could blame...
...those stately lectures which high British officials now and then condescend to give to an irreproachable organ like the New York Times was scrupulously mirrored in its pages last week: "With thrones toppling in Europe or being in subjugation to a dictatorship, it was the opinion of advisers to the throne that King George and Queen Mary were the perfect exemplars of British constitutional monarchy. . . . King Edward, however, has chosen to go his own way. . . . This has given rise to a considerable amount of bitterness and has split high society into two sections. . . . Mr. Simpson regards the friendship...
...condescend to quarrel with your opponent. Let your underlings...
...curious tribute to the conservancy of the human race that the first arrival in any place, other things being equal, will condescend to the second arrival...