Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia today the bankers can be said to have won. They feel they have won. Certainly they are not objects of mass scorn or ridicule. But Australia's climate is too salubrious, things grow too easily, mighty resources are too splendidly undeveloped, and the masses have too long enjoyed previous Government bounty for the New Deal which is old Down Under to have taken a fatal beating. From a critical Marxist viewpoint Australia is pinker than the U. S. today and Premier Lyons is but little whiter in his politics than President Roosevelt. Both leaders limp heavily, the Australian because...
...over 200 Germans were shot by Adolf Hitler's orders to make things easier for the Party (TIME, July 9, 1934), some 120,000 Germans were mobilized last week in Berlin. Announced Berlin Deputy Party Leader Goerlitzer who made the arrangements: "We prefer to demonstrate in intimate simplicity. We scorn to stage a pompous and festive program...
RADICALISM HELD A PATRIOTIC NEED Meantime in Chicago the year's best-publicized academic Red scare, having run up against a combination of scorn and spunk named Robert Maynard Hutchins, ignominiously collapsed. When Drugman Charles R. Walgreen withdrew his niece from University of Chicago, clamoring that the campus was rampant with Communism, President Hutchins angrily refused to dignify his vaporings with a public investigation (TIME, April 22). Only 75 of the University's 7,500 full-time students belonged to its two pinko student organizations.* But Drugman Walgreen got his hearing anyway, before the Illinois Senate...
...poems, several that strike a deep note of sadness and concern. Hospitable and urbane, Author Bynner has among his 70 guests a Communist and a patriot, a liar, a painter, a hostess, a debutante, a bachelor, maintains the same good manners, the same ironic detachment toward all. A depthless scorn is revealed only for the poetess who "would have ordered God from the front door if he had come in clothes that meant the back." Literary detectives may believe they recognize originals like Amy Lowell and D. H. Lawrence in Author Bynner's portraits, may think they have spotted...
...passivity, he came to the conclusion that it would be better to pick a quarrel than to have one forced upon him. He therefore strode up to Bathurst, the biggest and most powerful in the room, and scrutinized the latter's clothes in obvious and undisguised scorn...