Word: dismissiveness
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...first dismiss from this discussion as ridiculous the idea of any student youth movement, striding over this country in brown shirts or purple pants. Let me at the same time make clear the fact that not being too familiar with the reasons which drive students into the radical ranks, I cannot argue their case except to say that I understand why certain of them, as Lincoln Steffens shows us, become agitators in the hope that their efforts will help to break down a system which is fundamentally responsible for all our ills, political, social, and economic...
...Deputies to turn the matter over to an investigating committee. But the scandal of the Bayonne pawnshop swindler who seemed to have corrupted everyone with whom he came in contact would not die so easily. Four days after he had formed his Ministry, Premier Daladier was forced to dismiss Jean Chiappe as Paris Prefect of Police. When two resignations split his new Cabinet wide open, it seemed almost certain to fall on its first appearance before the Chamber...
...Sire, you must send away Mme Lupescu," he told scapegrace Carol II. "Also you must dismiss your private secretary and four other Court officials. Here is the list...
...later ousted as sole receiver by bankers who put in two of their own co-receivers. They promptly sued Founder Backus for $7,000,000. That was too much for Founder Backus. Last week in Minneapolis he launched a mighty campaign for a comeback. He asked the court to dismiss the receivers, charging them with gross mismanagement, inefficiency and squandering some $12, 000,000 of Minnesota & Ontario's assets. To a circular the receivers had distributed to bondholders, he countered with a $2,000,000 libel suit. He hired press-agents and mailed to bondholders his own pamphlet with...
...criticize the absurd caricature of Professor W. C. Abbott set forth in the October 19th copy of your paper. Of his fondness for milkshakes and black canes, I know little and care even less. Perhaps his generosity to the blind newsdealer offsets his smug self-complacency. But to dismiss his contributions to historical scholarship and his activities as a teacher as "dull" or trivial shows a singular ignorance of the former, and a failure to appreciate the real wisdom underlying his teaching methods...