Word: scornful
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Cyclists will give a striking demonstration of their scorn for Mr. Ickes Sunday when they race out to Wellesley in the third annual Harvard to Wellesley contest. The race will be held under the auspices of the Harvard Bicycle Racing Club, a wing of the Outing Club...
...Expected Scorn. But Hitler needed his sarcasm, too, to cover up the weak points in the German record. He paid a scornful tribute to the astounding fighters who were giving him his greatest opposition. "The blessed land of the totalitarians and of the peasants," he said, "unfortunately has no roads or only fragments of roads. Thus we have to build roads. Some said: 'Well, the Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that...
...usual, Adolf Hitler's chief scorn was directed at Britain and the U.S. He offered an opinion on the second front question: "If Churchill says: 'We shall leave it to the Germans to worry about where and when we shall open a second front,' then I can only say: 'Mr. Churchill, you have never yet caused me to fear. But regarding the fact that we must worry and think, you are right.' Because if I had an opponent of adequate scope-of real military size-then I could actually calculate approximately where he would attack...
...Lincoln's death inspired Little Tad ("God bless the little orphan boy, a father's darling pride"), post-war scorn for the South jelled into the unwarranted Jeff in Petticoats. The absurd feminine posture of the late '60s, called the Grecian Bend, was ribbed in a song. So was the style of tasseled shoes...
...with singers from every section of Philadelphia society. His grandiose plan, which fizzled, was to anneal all social disparities through the use of "solfa," the powerful archaic open scale which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing...