Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Inflating himself with an abundance of fine scorn, Senator King of Utah has huffed, and puffed, and tried to blow Ambassador Welles out of Cuba. Welles, he charges, has bungled the whole job, mistaken conditions on the Island, and in general pursued a cravenly pacifistic course. It is quite possible that Senator King's advice may be of the greatest value to Mr. Welles. The gentleman from Utah is a representative of the dominant beet sugar interests there; if the Ambassador will only make it a principle always to act in Cuba so that he earns the complete antagonism...
...midtown Manhattan hallway, where a policeman found his body; of coronary sclerosis. In Williamsport, Pa. he declared himself an artist at the age of 9, later began decorating safes, bandwagons, grocery stores when he was not boxing, wrestling, carousing. A roistering Rabelaisian to the last, he spat sulphuric scorn at highbrow art dealers, highbrow criticism, highbrow notions of technique, all living foreign artists and most dead ones except Rembrandt, Renoir and Franz Hals. Typical comment : "Da Vinci is the bunk - a mathematician, a subway digger." Died. Conrad E. Biehl, 67, Colorado's "glass eye king"; by his own hand...
...girl whom he has known for several months. She reveals that she is married, and that her husband, who had some money on the game, would consider it a great favor if Fowler didn't play the next day, and would blackmail him if he did. Asserting his righteous scorn and little pugilistic ability, our hero breaks his hand, but is rescued by his friends before further damage can be done. During the game, handicapped by the pain in his hand, he fails to come up to the expectations of Western cohorts, in fact, he drops a last minute pass...
Only buildings to escape the scorn of Guth were the Emmanuel Philipp School by Eschweiler & Eschweiler, a hospital from the drawing boards of E. Brielmaier & Sons, a chapel and a Catholic convent by Peter Brust...
...scorn was marked for the half timber & stucco dear to Milwaukee realtors...