Word: scoff
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Library officials here are inclined to scoff at figures published in the World Almanac to the effect that Russia has two which far surpass the size of the world's other giant book-stacks, numbering around seven or eight million each...
...trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...
...goods store window dressers have always quickly aped every Paris exposition and last week in Manhattan swank Saks-Fifth Avenue filled its windows with similar naked mannequins and fur coats flung about. Result: most women walkers on Fifth Avenue hurried past the little knots who gathered to gaze and scoff...
...bounds" part of the statement was occasioned by the fact that the promulgators of the plan had issued a statement that though people might at first scoff at their idea, the war, when it got under way, would be audible to everyone within a radius of five miles...
...Cabinet's front bench grew visibly more and more nervous as the proletariat-pampering section of the bill was belabored by M. Paul Reynaud, long the chief advocate in France of devaluation and last week riding the crest of acclaim. Deputies and Senators who used to scoff at his ideas showed strong inclination to regard him as an expert pilot in the difficult monetary channel France must now navigate. Deputy Reynaud dismissed as of minimum importance the stabilization agreement Finance Minister Vincent Auriol had verbally obtained from U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. and British Chancellor...