Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actually M. Crotti is not an ineffective theorist on canvas. Born in Switzerland 51 years ago, he does not disdain a knowledge of drawing. One canvas, which looks like two Scots fighting with bolts of tartan but is labelled Fishermen, is an interesting arrangement of colors. Lorenzo, a rapidly sketched portrait of a small surly boy with a face like a baboon, stops and holds most observers...
Home last week from Russia, Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, handsome young exponents of a bidding system of their own,* reiterated their disdain for Bridge Headquarters, Inc., called it a "merger of has-beens and never-wases." Said facetious Expert Culbertson: "When I was arrested for speaking Russian with suspicious fluency, I offered to play the head of the secret service a [Sidney] Lenz problem in order to prove that I was merely . . . Culbertson. . . . But the chief could not find a deck of cards with kings or queens in the pack. . . . Even with the provisional deck he agreed . . . that...
...serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician boatman, a lively but retiring enthusiast. His bitterest disdain is windless weather because it makes yachting "not very enjoyable...
...intolerable self righteousness, [Sir John] reminds one of a teetotaler who all his life looked with wrathful disdain on any one who touched a drop of alcohol, however diluted, and suddenly when he was approaching his seventh decade took to drink, and you saw him rolling from one side to another, and then he ended his career by entering into an inebriates' home...
...more conservative, the more narrowed, and the dependent individual; on the other the more radical, the more care-free member, relatively independent of society or of business. Between the two there has been and will be the conflict between old age and youth that in the latter case approaches disdain and in the former tends to paternalistic superiority...