Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Charlotte Koehler, The Netherlands' Cornelia Otis Skinner, has flaunted her way into a concentration camp by reading overtones of hatred and scorn for the Nazis into her dramatic sketches. To acknowledge applause she coyly waved a scarf (orange) at her audience...
...hopeless, they became as powerful a fact for the world to reckon with as the vision itself. Franz Werfel builds up a compassionate and ludicrous picture of how state, science and the Church handled this strange wild beast against which no weapons had been invented. Scientists trembled in scorn and terror at the challenge to their royalty over the century. The Church, sternly resolved to distinguish between truth, fraud and demonism, had also its own safe-playing dread of scientists and statesmen to contend with. The Church most scrupulously anatomized Bernadette's miraculous possibilities, but was also most bewildered...
Three years ago Mussolini was still popular in Italy. Today, said Matthews, he is the butt of crude jokes. More cynical than Anglo-Saxons, the Italians scorn Mussolini for the unforgivable Italian sin: making a fool of oneself. On May 9 their attitude was bored or ominous silence when Mussolini stalked to the reviewing stand on the Via Impero to celebrate the tragic farce of African Empire...
...fact, most Cantabrigians scorn the company's "ready-made" Mother's Day greetings, terming them naive and hackneyed. Those students, however who chose the form telegrams, are usually inclined toward maudlin sentimentality, the canvassing showed. But sentimental or not, Harvard men, this year as in the past, are outstripping their Radcliffe sisters in expressions of love for mother...
...have tolerated too long selfish interests which, knowingly or not, have worked in complete scorn of the national will. Looking at the need as a whole, it is up to the Governors and State legislatures to submerge provincial whims and local profits, for at least the duration, by eliminating their "divide and conquer" laws...