Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Comments about the music which have already been dropped into the Union suggestion box registered enthusiasm, requests for different music, and complete scorn for the whole idea...
...greatest achievements was to teach Puerto Ricans the true value of the ballot. Against the then-common practice of vote-selling, Muñoz used an argument compounded of pity and scorn: "If you want to sell your vote for $2, all right. I don't blame you. I know $2 is worth something. But if you don't sell your vote, you can use it to get justice for your family. So remember: justice or $2. But you can't have both...
...corrida itself. The writing is clumsy in places, but it is also direct, penetrating and sustained; it makes the slicker sorts of professionalism look pointless. And the book is, finally, both religious in its treatment of ultimates and morally eloquent in its strong rebuke for those who scorn any culture but their...
Rivera boomed his scorn of such views. He insisted he knew, better than they did, what "the workers" would look...
Bendix plays a morose, bumbleheaded factory hand with a careful blend of "bathos, confusion and corny humor. His enemy is his landlady (Beulah Bondi); his daughter is being courted by the boss's son and the landlady's nephew; his old pals (including Jimmy Gleason) scorn him when he gets to be an executive, but welcome him back to the fold when it turns out that his daughter won't marry the boss's son after all. Even a character named "Digger" O'Dell, an undertaker with a morgue full of morbid jokes...