Word: flout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...held no narrow views on the use of alcoholics and that the conduct of alumni was no affair of the President of Yale, Dr. Angell had been charged by a fanatical Pennsylvania alumnus with conniving at a "conspiracy in the class of '95 to violate the Eighteenth Amendment and flout the Constitution." "O! tempora," commented a Yale alumnus who had studied Latin, "Oh ! Mory...
...time has come, in my judguient, for the great majority of Yale men, loyal, law-abiding, and God-fearing,' to be recognized. No longer should the feelings of those who flout the law and the Constitution be considered. In behalf of that great body of alumni who believe in God, their country, and in Yale. I appeal to you, as President, to see that action is taken immediately to advise the graduate body that no returning alumnus unwilling to respect the Constitution of his country, will be made welcome by the university authorities: and that they will take positive...
...into a storm. What danger then? Very little, unless the captain be drunk?or unless her driving force go bad, her propeller shaft be broken, her engines stop in their ceaseless grind. In these days of several screws and several turbines, even that danger is minimized. The leviathans may flout the sea until some day?who can tell??the unpredictable, the improbable, may turn itself into a fact...
...dogs." The intense agitation on the part of the workers caused considerable nervousness among the Moscow Governmental hierarchy. Krassin, Kamenev and Zinoviev maintained that grain must be exported. Rykov, President of the Council of People's Commissaries, wavered. War Lord Trotzky thought it the height of folly to flout the people's wishes and recommended export of butter, timber, eggs, flax, oil to the West and of sugar to the East instead of export of grain. No decision was reached...
...part of the court record. Van Dyke says he has over; looked none of these facts, but has ! based his argument on the internal testimony of the pictures themselves. ' He expected this opposition, and would have published his book long ago had he not felt it presumptuous to flout the almost unanimous opinion of the art world. It is not the first time, however, that the authenticity of many Rembrandts has been questioned, notably by Dr. Alfred "yon Wurzbach, of Vienna...