Word: scornful
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...pastors who rebelled at the imposition of Nazidom upon their church an iron olive branch: "I admonish them to abandon their perverted craving for martyrdom and submit as a Christian duty. Govern the tongue, that unruly member. The church conflict has filled the mass of our people with astonishment, scorn and bitterness, for they cannot understand why pastors should quarrel. Nothing cures the itch for church politics like a visit to the sick...
...very puzzling-you men must be in your daily life honest, intelligent and educated or you would not be where you are, but having in your hands an instrument of publicity reaching thousands of readers you drop your principles and resort to sneaking actions which you would scorn in your private life...
...fortunes were made by many a businessman and politician who got to backwoods scrip-owners before the news did. Twenty-nine of the 64 members of the House of Representatives got a share of the pickings. Few great names (Washington's is an exception) escape McConaughy's scorn. Few schoolboys who remember that Patrick Henry asked for liberty or death have been told that he later made his pile in the Yazoo land swindle. Famed Chief Justice John Marshall is yanked from his niche, called the rock on which the Funding Fathers "rested secure in the enjoyment...
...Japanese threat on the eastern border. There were two predominant, reasons for this negligence, I think; one is the obvious and much-publicized Russian nationalism which is afraid to jeopardize its economic arrangements with foreign countries by "meddling" in their internal affairs; the other is the Bolshevik scorn of the Viennese Social Democrats, antipathy which long outdates the present series of that party's collapses. Bound by the toils of the Marxian dialectic, the Stalinites could not consistently admit the presence in Austria of a revolutionary movement. It did not bear the approved brand, it preserved a united from...
Some of the bounding campus figures here at Yale, completely lost in the bustle of one activity after another, might find spiritual solace during a year spent in the quarter, more sophisticated atmosphere of our Cambridge contemporaries. So with a few of the Harvard ultra-sophisticates, with their superficial scorn of any display of enthusiasm, their dilettante idealization of "culture" -- for them a year in the more normal and possibly more sincere New Haven air would do a world of good...