Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This lunch was by no means "diplomatic." It was instead an affair of the earthy type of Big Reds who are fist-deep in Russia's toughest problems and rather scorn the Soviet Foreign Commissar, "Maxie" Litvinoff, and his English wife Ivy. Later Ambassador Davies was feted at the Litvinoff dacha and had plenty of chance to see that these country places, plus the official limousines and luxuries of their owners, make the nominally small salaries of J. Stalin & Friends of no real importance, set them definitely off from Russia's masses as Mr. & Mrs. Davies...
...always to blow up old dogmas of education. Sailing with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with which schools tend to sit back and survey their methods of instruction...
...furor, got the city's newspapers solidly behind them. In May, convinced that they were being deliberately impeded, they took the extraordinary step of barring an assistant district attorney from their proceedings. After this clean break with local officialdom, their next move was to plump their rage and scorn and indignation square on the doorstep of New York's Herbert...
...voluminous correspondence to prove that he broke with Radek as far back as 1928; he demanded that prisoners who confess in Moscow that they saw him in Oslo or elsewhere describe the room in which these confessed encounters (which Trotsky denies) took place. He heaped his most biting scorn upon the charges & confessions of Red Romm. Where did Romm say he met Trotsky? In a describable room? No. Romm said they met in a "dark alley." "Romm deposes that 'he agreed to keep Trotsky informed on Washington happenings,' "observed Trotsky. "It would be fine if he would give...
...Opposer's legal capacity to oppose Respondent's application is hereby denied. Opposer's humorous capacity is admitted." In its Reply the Society stated, inter alia, "Oh well, let the applicant have its way. We have no desire to engage in acrimonious debate. . . . We laugh in scorn at the suggestion that we do not even exist. Twenty-thousand strong we laugh-Ha Ha! (ironic laughter). We have our traditions to uphold. A George never engages in acrimonious debate-well, hardly ever...