Word: contemptous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recent criticism of American literature has definitely approved the direction contemporary writers are taking. The evident appreciation of background by the younger men who have persisted in recording their contempt for American verse, civilization in the western world, is tending toward a social literature out of which that he no said quoi of greatness can only come. Dreisers and dos Passos, Lewises and their compeers are throwing the shafts of their wit into the obscurity of apparent dullness, are really, in short, lighting the stage of American letters...
...days later, the Chamber showed its contempt for the Fascist movement by according an ovation to Premier Poullet, and then rushing through legislation designed to cut down the period of compulsory military service in the Belgian Army from twelve months...
...SCIENCE). He has come to be known affectionately as "California's Grand Old Man" for his kindliness, his humanity, his love of children. He has a personal creed of welldoing and a God who is one to love and not to fear. Further, he has a hearty, outspoken, incisive contempt for many religious creeds and dogmas, especially the theory of predestination...
Recently some reporters snapped at this unhidden contempt and made a "newspaper story" of it. And as a result busy, aged Luther Burbank was last week obliged to hire seven additional secretaries to answer with natural courtesy the thousands upon thousands of letters relating to his religious views. A few days later, in a good, substantial California rainstorm, in the face of his wife's restraining pleadings, he motored from his Santa Rosa home, hitting water two feet deep, to San Francisco in order to read an exposition of his views to the congregation of the First Congregational Church...
...thing will stir first the Creightons' pity and then contempt Constitution) and near the Cathedral. In fact one sees them at the very doors of the Cathedral whining for alms, and shrewdly searching through their rheumy eyes the charitable potentialities of the stranger. At the Cathedral, too, the stranger from the U.S. will note the peculiar fashion in which the natives, who are mostly Roman Catholics, cross themselves. They make the regular gestures of the cross, then tap the nape of the neck...