Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Equally as satisfying is it to evoke a spark of awakened interest by playing a good jazz record for someone with a well-developed Philistine scorn who wonders how the Harvard Crimson can publish ten or twelve inches on "Swing" every week. Only last week I detected signs of just such a conversion after playing some records of instrumental blues for someone who had not suspected that that word "Jazz" could embrace music of such a high quality...
...Nazis' cruelty of forcing Jews into squalid, European ghettos, but it's nothing at all to whet the old knives, arm yourselves with heavy stones, muster an overwhelming majority of supporters, and then forcibly drive hated Negroes back into their equally-bad American slums. Those Detroit citizens, who scorn the Nazi theory of racial superiority, are at the same time hypocritically and vainly picturing themselves as members of a superior race. They think their "stock" is too good to live near darker-skinned citizens. And to back up their feelings of racial superiority they are supported...
...head of a special committee of the Chamber of Deputies investigating un-Argentine activities, he had rooted out Nazi agents. Demanding honest elections at home, he had turned his scorn on some of his fellow Argentines. The scorn struck hot-tempered Colonel Rottjer...
...gaunt, dog-tired Sumner Welles fell the task of summing up the U.S. position, of agreeing to a declaration that only "recommended" that the Americas break with the Axis, instead of tossing into Axis teeth a 21-voiced cry of defiance and scorn. But so far as they had gone the American republics had gone together...
Then he let go: eloquence, blunt, polished and effective as an old knobkerrie, the growling, galling scorn for his enemies, the passages of noble purple for his friends. Between bursts of applause in which Supreme Court Justices and diplomats joined as lustily as doormen, the galleries wondered whether ever before had such a moving and eloquent speech been made on the Senate floor. Actually it was not so much the speech as the personality that put it over...