Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lettrism, founded by Isidore Isou, an eccentric Rumanian, is a theory of poetry as "rhythmic architecture." The rapidly growing hordes of Lettrists scorn practically all non-Lettrist poets, and prefer meaningless combinations of letters to dictionary words. Founder Isou was planning last week to hire the Salle Wagram, one of Paris' biggest auditoriums, to denounce his opponents publicly. A typical Lettrist poem looks like a passage from Finnegans Wake translated into Esperanto...
...real anger had gone out of the debate over meat, but the President still drew scorn from every quarter. Republican politicians pointed to the confusion in the White House. Fiorello LaGuardia, speechmaking in Oklahoma City, called the President the "Roy Riegels* of American politics." Pint-sized Billy Rose, showman turned columnist, suggested W. C. Fields as presidential timber: "If we're going to have a comedian in the White House, let's have a good one." In Wash ington's Smithsonian Institution, a mysterious scratch disfigured the face of the Chief Executive's portrait...
With sweeping scorn, Jackson tackled their common excuse that only Hitler was to blame. "The defendants may have become slaves of a dictator, but he was their dictator. . . . They were the Praetorian Guard, and while they were under Caesar's orders, Caesar was always in their hands. ... If you were to say of these men that they are not guilty, it would be as true to say . . . there are no slain. . . ." In his opening speech eight weary months ago, Jackson had boldly raised the question of the trial's moral and legal basis. He avoided that overriding issue...
...Washington to keep him from getting the Chief Justiceship. He intimated that Elack had used pert Washington Star Columnist Doris Fleeson to further his ends. He quoted from a May 16 column in which Miss Fleeson reported the start of the feud. Wrote she: "Justice Black reacted with fiery scorn to what he regarded as an open and gratuitous 'insult, a slur upon his personal and judicial honor. Nor did he bother to conceal his contempt...
...Having compared the Trainmen's Alexander Whitney and the Engineers' Alvanley Johnston to enemy agents, the President went on to denounce them in the strongest language he could use over the radio. Time & again he referred to "these two men," "Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston,"-with mounting scorn...