Word: disdainfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twice he left the State Department, twice returned ; once for Woodrow Wilson in 1914, once for Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. That Republican Phillips was so honored by two Democrats was proof both of his ability and his studied disdain of politics...
...Before the figure of King Henry VIII in Madame Tussaud's Waxworks last week halted His Highness the Sheik of Bahrein, recently decorated by King Edward VIII (TIME. July 6), and loudly exclaimed with a gesture of disdain: "I do not like this big fat man who killed his wives...
...this time Chaplin has made the acquaintance of a Gamin (Paulette Goddard). She has patched up a shack where both can live in airy disdain of the Hays organization. When Chaplin gets out of jail, the Gamin is dancing in a cabaret whose proprietor agrees to employ Chaplin as a singing waiter. There occurs a scene of tray juggling, followed by the Chaplin song, in gibberish. Juvenile court officials descend on the cabaret to arrest the Gamin. Escaping, she and Chaplin are last seen walking together up that desolate and endless road upon which so many of his films have...
...first day we were alarmed by his tall, lanky frame, his long beard, his immobility, his silence; but when he spoke ... it was in delightful, economical epigrams. He listened to our daily discussions with a politely scornful indulgence. . . . Looking at him there, we had an impression of almost infinite disdain...
Argon, krypton, xenon, neon, helium and niton are called ''the noble gases" because, like supercilious bluebloods, they disdain to enter into chemical compounds with other substances. As long ago as 1896 noble argon was thought to have been caught in a fleeting intimacy with water, but that and other reported associations of the noble gases were so dubious that chemistry textbooks continue to label the six gases "inert, incapable of forming compounds...