Word: disdain
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...home the blonde who used to be George Jorgensen were some 350 curious citizens and a phalanx of photographers and reporters. When Christine appeared, a woman in the crowd turned to her little girl and said: "Look, Ruthie. She used to be a man" wrote the News with high disdain: "Ruthie stared popeyed. All she needed was a bag of peanuts and a bottle of soda...
Many a Briton shares Dr. Flexner's disdain. "Not one Etonian or Harrovian in a thousand," wrote University of Liverpool Professor Edgar Allison Peers, "would consider entering a shabby modern university, unlovely in appearance, unmellowed by tradition, and attended by men who actually live with their families and probably have only the faintest idea of the respective significance of a dinner jacket and a white waistcoat...
...smaller electronic brain. Called Monrobot, it will also recall the past and help predict the outcome of the current election at the earliest possible hour. Says ABC's News Director John Madigan, professing a disdain for such electronic gimmicks: "We'll report our results through Elmer Davis, John Daly, Walter Winchell, Drew Pearson-and about 20 other human brains...
...disdain for the parochialism and vulgarity of America is sobering. Anyone who, like myself, loves Harvard, must inevitably be shaken by the fact that Santayana found Harvard merely genteel and grubby a cultural backwash...
Behind Britain's front against Communism in Malaya stand British colonials, whose stiff-necked disdain for Malay and Chinese alike has made the struggle harder. Last June, the Selangor branch of St. George's Society, a British get-together club, sent out dinner invitations to the Sultan of Selangor and other Malayan dignitaries. The dinner was to take place at the exclusive Lake Club in Kuala Lumpur, but the club committee refused permission on the ground that a half-century-old custom prohibits Asian guests. The club's action enraged Britain's dynamic new High Commissioner...