Word: disdaining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After pudgy little Hanns Eisler, German born Hollywood composer, got into trouble last September with the House Un-American Activities Committee, his fellow composers began to think more highly than ever of his music. To show their disdain for mixing politics with art, several of them got together to sponsor an all Eisler concert in Hollywood's Coronet Theater. It was a sellout at a $6 top-all 300 seats...
...would be able to get him a radio operator for his secret transmitter. The patriot, as it turned out, was scandalized at the very idea. Renault had better luck near Bergerac, in the Dordogne, where his host was a small, salty squire, the father of eight, with a fine disdain for the conquerors. When, he asked, would Renault like to slip across into the German zone? After Renault replied "tomorrow," he realized that he was scared stiff of the Gestapo...
...grand sachem, lord paramount and international president of the American Federation of Musicians, Caesar Petrillo has an imperial disdain for convention, and, when confronted by bacteria, he will stop at nothing. He roars like a wounded lion if a photographer lays a camera down near him; he believes microbes use cam eras as invasion barges to leap...
Monitors were bribed for class lists. Tutoring school pamphlets were found in every mail box and on every bulletin board. Their advertising was the financial backbone of college publications. Students who tried to get an education the hard way were subjected to the disdain of their wealthier or less scrupulous associates...
Harold Ross has a highly combustible disposition, a scornful disdain of public relations, an unfailing nose for what he dislikes and a sure eye for what he wants: the easy, lounging air that the New Yorker affects. Last week, a former employee named Russell Maloney tried to reconcile the shock-haired man with his brilliantined product. Maloney worked for Ross for eleven years and resigned at last because he "felt rather middle-aged and pooped...