Word: scornful
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...foreman. "We find the defendant not guilty." Judge Bryant jerked upright, a grey forelock falling over his wide, incredulous eyes. From the courtroom rose a shrill burst of female cheers. The judge banged his gavel, got quiet. Turning to the jury, he cried in a voice sharp with scorn: "You have labored long, and no doubt have given careful consideration to this case. Before I discharge you I will have to say that your verdict is such that shakes the confidence of law-abiding people in integrity and truth...
...Negro Afro news service reported that blacks were swarming to enlist to fight for Ethiopia: "Chicago leads with 8,000 enrolled; Detroit comes second with 5,000; Kansas City, 2,000; and Philadelphia 1,500." This news was datelined from Manhattan and Afro's correspondent added with some scorn that Harlem had supplied only 850 recruits, "while Boston, the cradle of U. S. freedom and the home of Crispus Attucks, first American to die in the Revolutionary War, has enlisted only...
...Manhattan, Thomas Joseph ("Big Tom") Pendergast, Democratic boss of Kansas City, surveyed with scorn the sorry plight of Tammany Hall, gave the following advice...
...sustained intensity, its brilliant characterization of Mrs. Fury, its brisk, unadorned, effective prose style, its few powerful, panoramic scenes of violence and disorder during the strike. Although readers may be repelled by the detachment of James Hanley's writing-so chill it sometimes seems close to scorn-may dislike the general meanness that marks his minor figures, they are likely to agree that The Furys is a bold and arresting effort, less squeamish, less sentimental, than most of the novels dealing with the hardships of lower-class life...
...Congress of Young Communist Women and slipped in her covert protest. "The mother instinct is noble, and we consider it a great force, but we do not want our women to devote their lives to rearing children only!" cried Widow Lenin, herself childless and a typical Old Bolshevik, with scorn for the bourgeois virtues. "We do not want child bearing or any other aspect of married life to separate our women from public work...