Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feeling of scorn swept the bicycling world upon the announcement, for such action seems unnecessary in the light of present-day conditions. At Yale, at Princeton, at Oxford, and at Cambridge, students and faculty members ride where they please. At Wellesley and Smith, timid old ladies show no outward fear as bicycles glide silently by them...
...callow youth is scarcely a judge in such matters, but to the Moviegoer the young Dionnes look like handsome lassies. Your intellectual friends may excoriate with supercilious scorn the softheaded sentimentality of a public that will go wild over the product of an extraordinary accouchement. But have another look at the babes before you snoor. Besides the appeal of their tiny smiles, there is an unquestionable charm in their fivences...
...himself the easier road all through his life. He is a real Puritan, as Santayana explains in his "Prologue." "He kept himself for what was best.... His puritanism had never been mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness; it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter merciless pleasure in the hard facts...
...puritanism did not mean chastity or priggishness. "It is a popular error," says he, ''to suppose that puritanism has anything to do with purity." Nor was it ''mere timidity or fanaticism or calculated hardness: it was a deep and speculative thing: hatred of all shams, scorn of all mummeries, a bitter, merciless pleasure in the hard facts. . . ." Oliver's loneliness may have arisen because he never realized that "all ladies are women," a discovery that Mario made in childhood. Profoundly religious in temperament, Oliver rejected religion because he considered divine revelations to be factually untrue...
...politics are those of Voltaire, Victor Hugo, Clemenceau, Poincaire & Doumergue. As a Republican I denounce your Croix de Feu & all other parties of the Right. France has soldiers, mobile guards&policemen & needs no other private armies. I denounce equally the Communists whose ideal Russia, outdoes Capitalism. And I scorn such men as Remain Holland & Aristide Briand, who being the sole internationalists & brothers of men are blinded by their ideals & allow the enemies of their country to gain solid benefits, at her expense & safety, under the guise of this same internationalism. But you of the right, composed of L'Action...