Word: disdained
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...people disliked the old Robert Taylor (for one reason or another) but a lot more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become an international incident...
...quietly in Haslemere, making his own instruments just as the 16th and 17th-Century craftsmen made theirs, piecing together bits of historical information on how they should be played, playing the old music, teaching others how to play it. The idea of artistic progress rouses Dolmetsch's fiery disdain. Says he in his time-resisting French accent: "There has been no improvement in any art, at any time, anywhere! There have been little changes-like in fashions-but you usually find that where you've gained something you've at the same time lost something else that...
Previously held in disdain with its record of a single win, Princeton may assume the role of Giant Killer by toppling the circuit leaders from the Ivy League Bean Stalk...
...date on its schedule. This rebuff, although probably unintentional, precipitated one of the most publicized coaching feuds in collegiate history. Coach Kiphuth frankly disliked his aggressive Midwestern rival, saw no use for his mechanical rabbits and other training gadgets used to develop stamina and pace. Coach Mann looked with disdain on his Eastern rival who had taught himself to teach swimmers by watching others swim...
...game single handed, saved the day, and made the world safe for Democracy. A reaction was only natural for so precocious a youth, and it came in a tendency toward manfully swapping glances with Theda Bara or in clinging to our ideals and displaying a gentle-manly disdain for the mating call of the cow-Balinese in "Goona-Goona." But we soon hit the nadir; we liked our lady friends to wear their skirts around their necks and liked our alcohol distilled from hair tonic or drained from Sterno. Our few healthy moments were spent at "Sunny Side...