Word: scoffer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stuttgart's Schwabischer Merkur, old Father Bogoyavlenski tells how Schoolboy Stalin, when baited by a scoffer with Russia's old rigmarole, "beat the impious one so mercilessly that he had to be sent to the hospital...
...with the barons of banking. But he is oppressed ever by something worse than poverty, by a feeling that what he creates does not matter; that he is expected by his readers to be only a decorator or a clown, or that he is good-naturedly accepted as a scoffer whose bark is probably worse than his bite and who probably is a good fellow at heart; that he does not count in a land that produces eighty-story buildings, motors by the million and wheat by the billions of bushels...
Recalcitrant Julian (cont.). Greatly angered and perturbed were oilmen when Oilman Charles Courtney Julian last fortnight denounced curtailment, said, "It's the bunk" (TIME, Sept. 1). Last week Scoffer Julian showed no signs of penitence but obtained an injunction preventing the State Corporation Commission from taking any action against his oil company for non-curtailment. If Mr. Julian succeeds in proving that proration by law is "unconstitutional and void," the unhappy oil industry may again be in a grave crisis...
Down by the river a group of steadily growing brick buildings bear testimony to the near christening of the Harkness House Plan. Visitors from New Haven view them with deep interest, and mixed emotions. Harvard is hailed as a scoffer at tradition, is admired through many gallons of printer's ink for her adventurous spirit. Yale has regretted and amended her decision...