Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Journalists who read the American Mercury for October went hot with pride, shame or anger. Editor Henry Louis Mencken had delivered himself of another diatribe on U. S. journalism. Once a newspaper man himself, Editor Mencken now looks down upon his former fellows and their calling with scorn and impatience. His tirades are bitter, egregrious, painfully penetrating. They are the firebrands of a studious but inactive idealist...
When only the larger nations are left armed, public opinion will either force them to join their smaller brethren in a policy of disarmament, or will make them accept responsibility for future trouble. And the nation which will brave the scorn and contempt of a peacefully inclined world will indeed be an all powerful...
This was too much for fiery John Spargo. He arose again, poured scorn upon Mr. Ruhl for having "moods" about the Russians, upon Colonel Haskell for having implied that Labor in the U. S., jealous of its prestige and power, was illiberal toward the Soviets. Wilbur Thomas, head of the Relief Commission of the Society of Friends, and Sir Bernard Pares, one of the editors of the Slavonic Review, joined the anti-Spargo forces. Boris Bakhmeteff kept his peace, raising his voice only to beg the learned disputants to take their debating with somewhat more repose...
...Koran permits a man four wives, but many a Turk has beer guilty of concubinal cupidity and has excessively multiplied that number Nevertheless, Turks have for long taken pride in pointing fingers oi scorn at the prostitution of worrier in the Occident, which was a thing unknown to polygamous, Turkish Turkey...
...horny finger of scorn pointed...