Word: disdainfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English, Sherlock Holmes was a literate patrician who always took his work seriously, permitting himself no distractions except an occasional shot of morphine when he was bored. For the Hays Production Code, according to which "the drug traffic should not be presented in any form," Basil Rathbone exhibits proper disdain. But before he asks Watson (Nigel Bruce) for his needle, he solves in satisfactory style Conan Doyle's gloom-ridden mystery of murder on the Grimpen Mire...
...appointments at present. Younger men are to be consulted and will vote on their peers. But the motive force will still come from the chairman of the department-still imposed from above and not elected--and his older colleagues. It is perhaps unfortunate that the report say fit to disdain the recommendations of the Teachers' Union for more formal democracy within the departments...
...imaginary dons in an imaginary Oxford College (Simon Magus), taking place at 50-year intervals from 1588 to 1938. In the early passages, Monsignor Knox does not spare his readers the "brutish superstitions" and the "idolatrous mass-altars" which were the phrases of anti-Catholics. Nor, later, does he disdain to write comedy...
...Hopalong Cassidy series, partly because there is no other type of picture calculated to give so little offense to foreign countries, they have enjoyed a spectacular renaissance. Minor producers who make low-budget Westerns in dozen lots are turning out more than ever. Major producers, inclined to disdain Westerns for the past few years, have not only resumed making them but promoted them to high production budgets...
Writing in the Harvard Educational Review's current issue, Dean Henry W. Holmes '08, of the Graduate School of Education, declares that "intolerance, contumely, and disdain expressed against any group, class, race, or creed . . ." as personified by the recent Freshmen vs. American Legion affair, is " . . . an offense against the democratic spirit...