Word: scoffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested only in preventing insurmountable obstacles being placed in the way of unification of the German race. "In the name of the German Government, I scoff at these Italian threats...
Dispassionate observers could find little to add to these two pronouncements. Taken together, however, they provided much solid food for thought, and an excellent opportunity for congratulating Count Volpi upon his success in apparently pleasing both his major creditors fairly well. The New York Times might scoff: "Both Great Britain and the U. S. gravely assume that our grandchildren will be collecting on the Italian debt. . . . Who lives will see, but it is extremely unlikely that he will see that." And the London Times might grumble: "Reduced to simple mathematical terms, the agreement represents the cancellation of approximately six-sevenths...
...academic world and all that it needs to do to claim it is again to burst forth in forensic splendor. The subject of "Is Harvard Collegiate?" will doubtless provide sufficient scope for all those with latent oratorical ambitions and yield much interest and entertainment for those who come to scoff or pray. Let it be hoped this eruption of the Union will have a positive result, for like volcanoes, debating societies are only worthwhile when definitely active or definitely extinct...
...Earl Stanhope, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, that the Singapore naval base would not be "a great base for concentration," but "comparatively a minor establishment." Lord Balfour (ex-Premier A. J. Balfour), one of the two elder British statesmen (the other is ex-Premier Lord Roseberry), rose to scoff politely at Labor and Liberal opposition to the base. Said...
...identity of the sorehead is unknown. On the cover of the book it is announced that the author, is "Hollis Randolph Thayer-Smith," while the publisher is declared to be the "Pessimistic Society of Cambridge." But that he finds much to scoff at in Harvard and her professors is apparent from his score or more of sonnets, written in more than passing verse, which appear in his little volume...