Word: scornful
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...speech was probably the most able and certainly the most direct and challenging that the President has yet made over the radio since he took office. But like all speeches concerning a matter so controversial as the New Deal, it gave aid and comfort to sympathizers, disposed with proper scorn of those whose objections are based on more Old Guardism, and failed to answer the sound objections of those who agree with Mr. Roosevelt that something has had to be done, but disagree with his solution...
Like many another Frenchman, the Evreux judge deplores his Government's welching, winces at the scorn of itinerant Moe Buchsbaums. Instead of ordering the prisoner jailed he snapped, "I will accept, Monsieur Buchsbaum, a photostatic copy of a check proving that you have paid the sum of 100 francs to the American Treasury for the account of France...
...Office and a special protege of Conservative Leader Baldwin. When Patron Baldwin was being attacked with special savagery by the Press of Viscount Rothermere, Protege Duff Cooper publicly declared that "Lord Rothermere hasn't got the guts of a louse!" (TIME, March 23, 1931). Last week he turned with scorn no less withering upon James Maxton...
...have had ample opportunity to notice that TIME does not indulge in Tabloid photographs nor Gum-Chewers-Sheetlet reporting. Since the number of April 9 displaying on p. 19 another even bloodier corpse I feel you have definitely joined the brotherhood for which you profess such smug scorn. I realize this is a waste of typewriter ink and time, but hope that my protest will be one of many. Few people enjoy and none needs the sight of photographed corpses. It is revolting, and cheap, and I would like to think that the person responsible for these two pictures among...
...London or the New York Times but far more venerable, the Vossiche Zeitung was "Auntie Voss" to Berliners. It had reported the battles of Frederick the Great and Napoleon, the rise of Bismarck and the rise of Hitler. Toward Handsome Adolf its attitude was one of disgusted scorn, until he came into power and threw the Nazi blanket over "Auntie Voss' " head. That blanket has suffocated 600 German newspapers. In Hamburg alone four papers gave up last week. And in Berlin "Auntie Voss" expired too, with one last muffled peep...