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...Scorner of Socialists as too nellie-nice, of Communists as too violent, is the Socialist Labor Party. Its candidate for President: John W. Aiken, Massachusetts cabinet-finisher, candidate for one political office or another ever since 1922. For Vice President: Aaron M. Orange, New York City schoolteacher...
...blazing armchair. Friends said he was a constant and careless smoker, burned holes in pajamas, dressing gowns, bedcovers. An autopsy revealed that he was intoxicated when he died. Like the late Robert W. Chambers (see below), Author Vance was a onetime artist, a prodigiously prolific writer, a scorner of "literature...
...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...