Word: flout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...make ourselves a place apart Behind light words that tease and flout, But oh, the agitated heart Till someone find us really...
...Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this college. . . . They are making a mockery of a Harvard education, a lie of a Harvard diploma...
Lined up on Massachusetts Avenue, grinning obscenely down over Harvard Yard, there is a row of intellectual brothels. Every year they are patronized by two-thirds of the student body; every year they flout with greater insolence the decency and respectability of this College. Their grip has tightened until they threaten to constrict all the life and all the vitality from the Harvard system, and the moral degeneration for which they are responsible is cumulative. They are making a mockery of a Harvard education; a lie of a Harvard diploma...
...Governor. Director is a young (27), bespectacled Harvardman ('33) who studied Fine Arts in college because he thought it was a snap course, wrote the music for a Hasty Pudding show, still likes playing tennis and skiing as much as working with pictures: James Sachs Plaut (rhymes with flout), who was assistant curator of paintings at the Fine Arts Museum before the Institute hired him last year. More young Bostonians went to his show last week than the Museum had seen for years...
...Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred, 72-to-9. Franklin Roosevelt promised to write Judge Roberts a right interesting letter before making another appointment. Snorted Carter Glass: "I think he'll send up a more objectionable...