Word: condescending
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Since Prime Minister Poincaré is thoroughly tired of office after two and a half years of struggle and achievement, he did not even condescend to appear in the Chamber, last week, to defend his Government. Though suffering from only the lightest attack of influenza, the wise old "Lion of Lorraine" kept to his bed, and let the demagogs in the Palais Bourbon roar. For periods of five, ten, 15 minutes it was impossible to distinguish any orator's impassioned periods above the babel. When a vote of confidence was taken - on a trifling issue of local politics...
...Admired by many an editor, but inaccessible because he draws only for the New York Times, is adroit Cartoonist Edwin Marcus. Only on Sundays does the fatherly Times condescend to publish "features." Cartoonist Marcus regularly does portraits for the theatrical section and cartoons on leading topics in season. He is one of the few living cartoonists who was born and raised in Manhattan. His most famed compositions were made during the War?"The Road to Yesterday" (War dragging Europe back to Barbarism) and "Damn the torpedoes?go ahead" (quoting Admiral Farragut at Mobile Bay). His "pals" are Cartoonist Cliff Sterrett...
...praise its sanity, its good humor, and, if we may condescend, its want of chauvinism (though at the moment there is nothing to be chauvinistic about, not even a football team, is there...
...things by studying in terms of situations rather than subjects is convincing in the abstract. But the moment we attempt to step from the abstract into the concrete and undertake to visualize such a teaching policy in operation in a university, a thousand difficulties arise. Few have ventured to condescend to details respecting this suggestion as far as college instruction goes. It has usually been left in that twilight zone of the abstract where we keep ideas that would be good if they could be made to work. In an article published in the Century Magazine, Alexander Mciklejohn tentatively suggested...
Heywood Broun-"The man who wrote Saint Joan can now condescend a little to the author of Caesar and Cleopatra . . . much slipshodery in the first night performance...