Word: flouter
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...easily. Some offensive scrambling gave Branders forward Glenn Conlan the ball on the right wing, and after dribbling toward the endline, he launched a low cross toward the Crimson net that skimmed off goalkeeper Phil Coogan's hands. The rebound landed near Judge halfback Jim McCully, who hit a flouter that landed squarely in the upper right of the goal...
Having spoken, King Peter motored home. Next day the London press, led by the sober-sided Times, called him defiant, a flouter of Churchill, one who "threatens grave embarrassment to the British Government." A spokesman of the Government called the royal statement, issued without his Government's sanction, "unconstitutional." In Belgrade, some 50,000 of King Peter's subjects shouted: "Down with the destroyer of unity, King Peter! Down with the Fifth Column émigrés...
...brisk denunciation of C. C. N. Y. as a place where the taxpayers, "the orderly and decent element, are educating a bunch of young Communists and Socialists." At once C. C. N. Y.'s president, alumni and friends burst into print, flaying Justice Russell for an impertinent flouter. Later a Supreme Court Justice granted the name-change, rebuked Justice Russell. Justice Russell, rebuked, said that investigation had convinced him C. C. N. Y.'s "bunch" was "but a minority," thanked C. C. N. Y.'s faculty for "the temperate manner in which the facts have been brought...
That night Argentinean radio listeners heard a Boris Godounov with no Boris, for whenever Chaliapin sang, their loudspeakers were mute. Next day critics and persons who had witnessed the performance acclaimed Chaliapin. But the Argentine press, outside of its music columns, flayed Chaliapin as a haughty flouter...
...Colonel George Harvey, onetime outspoken ambassador to the Court of St. James's, was a weekend guest at White Court. An habitual flouter of customs, the Colonel was the first guest this summer who has preferred the sun and beach to attending church with the President. He smiled his excuses, said he had some letters to write...
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