Word: scorner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there were frowns and scowls and even growls among the "practical" element of the G. O. P. Senator Moses, himself no scorner of cocktails, said he had received "plenty" of letters protesting about Worker Willebrandt. The arch-Democratic New York World turned, of course, from anger to glee and redoubled its editorial sniping at "Mabel" and "sectarianism." More serious was a cartoon published broadcast by the pro-Hoover Scripps-Howard newspaper chain, showing a church daubed with "Politix" and the G. O. P. spanking a naughty child. The caption was "Give this little girl a great big hand...
...those tears are precious, for they show that the grace of God and the tenderness of Jesus have at last wormed their way even into the hard, flint-like heart of a scorner and a scoffer...
Oxford man, scorner of the pedestrian scholarship of his time, indefatigable linguist, doctor of theology and doctor miraculorum (wonders) at Paris, friend of Bishop Robert Grosseteste of Lincoln, and of Guy de Foulques (later Pope Clement IV), this Franciscan monk, Roger Bacon, had few intellectual peers in his century, whether or not he invented the contrivances dubiously attributed to him: a telescope, burning glasses, spectacles. His most popularly famed experiments were with gunpowder, of which he was the first important historian rather than the "inventor...
...told, the book is rather a mediocre feat for the celebrated scorner of average men, literary grace, Pulitzer Prizes. The flaying of E. Wesson Woodbury may spoil a great many people's summer vacations, but far more malice could have been wrought, and more sales made, if the ending had not been so tediously dragged out. After paddling far up the stream of U. S. literature, Mr. Lewis has idly turned his canoe and shot some unexciting rapids...
Amid so much pomp it was recalled that Baron von Richthofen had ever been a scorner of the conventional mediocrities of mankind. When he was shot down at last, he was found wearing a flaming suit of silk pajamas under his aviator's uniform. Said mourners: "His pajamas and his famous blood-red battle plane were typical of the man-a flaunting, brave, exuberant war eagle. His like has not often been seen...