Word: scoffer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week in London, the Royal Academy, having worked over Tate's basement trove, put the whole collection on show in its Piccadilly museum. The Academy hopes to prove the error of Scoffer Rothenstein's ways, to end what it considers a "mischievous and unseemly controversy." Rothenstein hopes gallerygoers will laugh the collection back to the cellar. In a sense, he will be on show himself. From a group study entitled The Princess Badroulbadour, painted by his father Sir William Rothenstein, the young John of 1908 will gaze, fixed and helpless, at the passing jury...
...local freethinker and scoffer at the Gospel, Fred Ammermeyer. decided he would beat the missions at their own game by giving a big Christmas feast and blowout for outcasts. No hymns, no prayers, not a word of preachment would embarrass Ammermeyer's free festivities, but "a dinner that went on in rhythmic waves,' all day and all night, until the hungriest and hollowest bum was reduced to breathing with not more than one cylinder of one lung...
...Cleveland last week, 24-year-old Ken Everson had his airline, Executive Airline Service, and one plane. Partner Gerry Ray was in Washington trying to buy more. The third partner: Scoffer Daugherty. They hoped to serve companies large enough to use air charter service often, but too small to maintain their own planes...
...barrel-chested populator of Frogner Park was a mystic, a recluse, and a scoffer at all art-except his own. Largely self-taught. Sculptor Vigeland emerged, in 1905, from a cocoon of starvation and obscurity, to receive a prize beyond the wildest dreams of patron-seekers. The Norwegian Government had agreed to commission him with a carte blanche...
...Croft scoffer now, Tony looks with disdain at a "motor villa" he also owns. "Viva Tony," he shouts, "two more years da bulbs, you can have da joint...