Word: jeering
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...strutting Japanese who had delivered a brash ultimatum (TIME, June 17). It was peculiar that batches of arriving Japanese troops should be waited on in Tientsin by dainty Japanese geishas who pattered about bowing and serving them ice water, tea and pink lemonade without so much as a jeer from the abject Chinese populace. Finally it was most peculiar that in Nanking withered Chinese President Lin Sen and sleek Chinese Premier Wang Ching-wei should give a bounteous banquet at which their chosen Guest of Honor was the onetime Japanese Minister Akira Ariyoshi, newly elevated to the dignity of Japanese...
...disadvantageous confusion." Ever alert for her trading subjects' welfare, Queen Wilhelmina was said to be personally behind this move to wake up Dutchmen to their boycott peril. That Adolf Hitler aspires to absorb the Netherlands Her Majesty firmly believes, has taken steps accordingly. She permits Dutch Communists to jeer at her when she opens Parliament but has outlawed the Dutch Nazi Party...
Late at night, often with a copy of the first sheet off the press, the candidate trudges wearily back to his room, sighing over the thought that tomor- row will be the same. Alarm clocks fail to rouse the slumberer, but admonishing friends are always present to jeer the news hawk on his way. They fail to realize, he says to himself, that yesterday he was in the midst of ropes, back-drops and shirt-sleeved stage hands while the star of the hour explained her aversion for poodles. Or that the night before he had jumped...
...been a great cry for economic planning. I often wonder whether the people who call for it really mean what they say. Are they willing to sur render their individual freedom to the extent necessary to cooperate in a plan. . . . Rugged individualism is not so bad, however much we jeer the phrase today...
Infuriated to find that a jeer popular in the Midwest-"Pooh-pooh-Purdue"-had reached Manhattan, Purdue gave N. Y. U. its most thorough drubbing since...