Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Businessman Heil began budget hearings in a mood of high scorn for the incompetence and extravagance of public officials. He asked President Clarence A. Dykstra (pronounced dike´-struh) of the University of Wisconsin-formerly Cincinnati's efficient city manager, with whom Governor La Follette replaced Republican Dr. Glenn Frank-for a breakdown showing the cost-per-student of each department in the university. He said that in his business, when a department was found inefficient, it was discontinued. Said he, "I want to know if there is a cancerous growth, and if there is, I want to cure...
Radcliffe fought five with fire yesterday, greeting the newly formed Bachelor's Society with emotions ranging from scorn to deepest concern. If the Harvard group continues to grow, according to several of the girls, they expect to form an Old Maids' Club...
Miss Ogden pours her heaviest scorn on finishing schools. She studied nine of the most exclusive.* They go in, she reports, for uniforms, sports, compulsory chapel, languages (particularly French), literature, music, art, and keeping the girls away from boys...
...Court for "lack of judicial temperament" did not deter him from getting himself into hot water again by proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard and barring Negroes from freshmen dormitories. He went on to become embroiled in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as the target of libertarians' scorn. Last year, when he demanded that the Government suppress sitdown strikes, Massachusetts Labor sharply reminded him of Harvard's underpaid scrubwomen. Latest scorching for white-mustached old Dr. Lowell was the revocation last year of his automobile driving license, after he had once flunked a test, twice crashed into...
Probably no group of writers or politicians has less respect for each other than the Katzenjammer Kids of the radical movement. Their polemical outbursts are juicy with accusations and counteraccusations. Almost invariably they get home safely, for good radicals, adhering to an unwritten code, usually scorn the capitalist courts. Past master at this sort of street-fighting is New York's Daily Worker, central organ of the Communist Party, U. S. A. Its most galling volleys are reserved for its rival gang, Leon Trotsky and his followers. So bitter has this battle become that unwritten codes have been forgotten...