Word: contemptible
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gaudy Legend. At 47, after three decades in the dazzled public eye, Actress Bankhead is one of the few people in the English-speaking world instantly and unmistakably identifiable by her first name. Her lounging, lionesslike vitality, her insatiable lust for life and her contempt for all forms of humbug have inspired a large body of legend. Her egomania is about as extreme as "the artistic temperament" can produce. She is exhibitionistic, extravagant, self-indulgent, unpredictable-and full of whims, radiant good humor and terrible rages. She is all these things in a very fulltime, wholehearted...
...swing violently left. Henry Wallace had tried to lead him that way and he had brushed Wallace off with in difference, even with contempt. But it was clear now that Republican conservatism had reached its peak in 1946. The voter had spoken-when he was good & ready-with a flat and incontrovertible voice. The voice announced a new chapter in U.S. politics. Harry Truman was now the absolute boss of a resurgent Democratic Party. Republicans might not be able to stand it. But the Republic could...
...usually affable musician works up a fine contempt discussing the Metropolitan Opera Company, which he claims has horribly stunted the growth of American opera. His early Tanglewood work amazed the New York critics, who have since learned that an evening of opera need not be four hours of vocalizing by a group of overweight prima-donnas...
From there on, the delegates tried to outdo each other in expressions of fealty. They decided that his birthday, Feb. 12, should be a holiday† in the soft-coal fields. They learned that John L. had not paid his $30,000 contempt fines out of his own pocket but out of the union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their...
...first two volumes bring him up to the age of 27) is 1,013 pages of solid fact and educated guesswork buttressed with 5,440 footnotes, uncompromisingly set below the text. For the popular, novelized biography, full of glib insights into the inner man, Freeman has nothing but contempt. His dogged intent is to portray Washington day by day and "year by year, through each new experience, as if nothing were known and nothing were certain about his future...