Word: scornful
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...lines only vaguely reminiscent of the late James Elroy Flecker he pours his scorn on effete modern poets, no better than sissies...
Author Loening stoutly defends Orville Wright in the famed controversy with the Smithsonian Institution over Professor Samuel Pierpont Langley's Aerodrome (TIME, Jan. 1, 1934). Bitterest Loening scorn is reserved for the Wartime Aircraft Production Board headed by Motorman Howard Earle Coffin, whom he accuses of having led a "Detroit conspiracy" in "crafty scheming to wean away aviation from its rightful owners...
Recipient of his schoolmates scorn...
This fixed point could only be achieved by a decisive agreement among the Great Powers. Realmleader Hitler, with his scorn of Democracy, felt safe enough, since at Stresa Democracy will rule two to one over Fascism. "All their tricks," exulted the Berliner Tageblatt, "will be at best contraptions ... of short duration...
...Saar so it will be in Danzig. . . . Scorn the carping of whoever says The Leader has embarked on catastrophic policies! . . .Whoever throws the dice for high stakes must risk something. As Nietzsche said 'One must have the courage to live dangerously...