Word: scornful
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Louis Pasteur, the father of modern medicine, brought scorn upon himself from the older members of the French Academy of Medicine when he explained to them the discoveries he had made through his microscope. Nevertheless he continued his experiments for fifteen years and proved his theories so successfully by actual cures that at another meeting of the Academy he was heaped with honors. The modern physician is a descendant of Pasteur. The old untidy family advisor is more a remnant of the days when the efficacy of herbs was thought to lie in the incantations breathed over them...
...American innocent abroad has long been the butt of foreign laughter and scorn. In fact foreigners, from Charles Dickens to Lady Asquith, have journeyed even to our own front stoop to voice all manner of criticisms, the burden of which has ever been that "getting and spending, we lay waste our powers". "Little", they tell us, "do we see in art which is ours...
...education and sympathies. It will make him painfully conscious of the faddism which "American artists", as such, have indulged in. And the recent exhibit of the "Society of American Artists" in New York will not comfort him. Its two stellar attractions would hold, in foreign eyes, the place of scorn that Mr. Studge, the Medium, held in Browning's. In one of these "masterpieces", Bryan, Anderson, and Volstead are seen protesting against the miracle of turning water into wine, with the illuminating title underneath: "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." And a neighboring exhibit represents...
...dangerous minimum of fact was playing upon the credulity of the public. So completely did the Salem witches take in the hardheaded Puritans, that they were placed in the fire to drive out the evil spirits. Mary Ellen of Nova Scotia kept sophisticated newspaper readers undecided between belief and scorn. And more recently a nurse caused gray bearded doctors to shake their puzzled heads at her steadily maintained temperature of 114 degrees until the hoax was discovered in the form of a hot water bottle...
...tossed the sinful chessboard into a dark corner when the abbot called him to illuminate the daily chronicle. The monks had found that he had "joined legs and arms to the long music notes, found nose and eyes and china for A's and B's. He had only scorn for the inky-fingered scribblers who drew the Latin script...