Word: scornful
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...pointed a horny finger of scorn at the U. S. actively entering the seething cauldron of imperialist politics, and said: "While it has not yet learned to realize its own great power, it studies on Europe's flesh and bones how to use it;" adding: "The American capitalists cannot allow England, France and Germany to regain their markets, as they themselves need them...
...long ago, Secretary of State for the Colonies, J. H. Thomas, announced himself as an Imperialist when he said that the Government intended to do everything in its power to develop the Colonies and aid the Dominions to develop themselves. This streak of Imperialism, which once called forth scorn from Labor, was again manifested when the Government announced that it had no intention of surrendering the Sudan to Egypt (TIME, July...
...Naples and dazzling centre of its brilliance, to be the intimate of the intriguing and lovely Neapolitan Queen, Marie Caroline, sister to Marie Antoinette of tragic memory, and lastly to be the passion and inspiration of Nelson, hero of Trafalgar. Illiterate, geistlos, breathtakingly beautiful, object of adoration and of scorn, Emma Hamilton's star flashed through triumphant, troublous skies, and two centuries have not quenched its sullied splendor...
Virginia sent up her senior Senator, Claude A. Swanson, to nominate her junior Senator, Carter Glass, former Secretary of the Treasury. For 20 minutes, Virginia and New York maintained a languid march. Then Governor Trinkle seconded Mr. Glass with the declaration: "No man can point the finger of scorn at him except with pride." A woman in her 60's, Mrs. Kate W. Barrett, seconded Mr. Glass again, in an able speech which provoked real applause...
...Assistant Commissioner for Foreign Affairs, scurried from Moscow across the face of Europe to the British Metropolis. The Times, displaying an attitude entirely in keeping with that of the greater part of the British press, printed a letter from one Athelstan Riley, Seigneur of Trinity, Jersey, in which lofty scorn is apparent...