Word: disdainer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jovial humor. The statesmen saw what a long way the three Allies had come within a year. The crusty old reserve was melting. A new understanding seemed dawning. Pushkin & Byron. The keynoter was Russia. Gone was yesteryear's cry for a second front, yesterday's disdain for the Anglo-American military effort. The Soviet press now gave due and admiring credit to American Lend-Lease, to the air blows over western Europe, to assembling invasion armies. The Russians were told that their future must be linked to that of their allies. English had become a primary instead...
Alone Among the Roots. Away from the mike, the youngest Quiz Kid has a normal childish disdain for the silly questions grownups ask him. Last week he bore the marks of a recent poke in the teeth given him by one of his Chicago playmates...
Next day Ivy Litvinoff reviewed the performance in the Washington Post. With an Englishwoman's casualness about travel, and Soviet-bred disdain for Chekhov's pre-revolution neurotics, she sniffed at the idea that "it should take three perfectly healthy young women, with the price of a ticket in their pockets, four acts not to get to Moscow...
Quislingite Bishop Einar Lothe of Trondheim, Norway has suffered a nervous breakdown and asked permission to retire. Reasons: for months Bishop Lothe has been treated with "icy disdain" by the townspeople; his congregation in Trondheim Cathedral, where he preaches in uniform, has dwindled to a mere handful; soon after he gets on a crowded streetcar he often finds himself the sole occupant...
...reply to yesterday's "Music Box.": "Swing" never did mean to say that all classical-music lovers disdain all forms of popular music, though "Swing" did try to infer that their training frequently inhibits their ability to understand jazz. In spite of Mr. Flint's gratifying knowledge of jazz, he is by far the exception, not the rule...