Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...same line. His attacks on Chairman Raskob for injecting Prohibition into the meeting brought boos and hisses from the audience. Angrily he exclaimed: "Oh, your jeering methods, your hisses! But understand you'll never tie the Democratic party down to death and destruction for lack of men who scorn your hisses and defy your unfair methods. . . . If the Democracy would cease this foolishness over liquor we could go forward to a great triumph...
Worst of all, according to Author Mumford, the new Fair buildings are not really modern at all, but "eclectic shams." Pronouncing "eclectic" with the same fine scorn with which an Insurgent Senator pronounces the word "Republican," Lewis Mumford insisted that the new Chicago buildings are merely pseudo-classical buildings to which the architects have applied details of the new and at present fashionable style exactly as they applied Gothic, Renaissance, Georgian details to their steel frame skyscrapers...
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet by Conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $4)-Toscanini would scorn playing this popular love music inspired by Tchaikovsky's unrequited passion for a French singing actress. Mengelberg and his home orchestra give it a glowing performance...
...Maurice Moscovitch gives what seems to this reviewer to be the most intelligent estimation of the Jew of Venice that has been presented in recent years. Neither one extreme nor the other, Shylock, as Mr. Moscovitch portrays him, is a very complex character, a man who commands at once scorn, pity, and admiration...
...Shakespere wrote them indicate that he intended Shylock to be a mixture of good and evil. At one moment you laugh at his tears for his daughter and his ducats, but the sincere lament that follows immediately after for the loss of Leah's ring certainly arouses anything but scorn. Again, when Bassanio and Antoncate comedy, and Shylock a wretch who gets his just deserts, but he is not a stage villain of Gothic blackness. Instead, Mr. Moscovitz shows a fusion of contradictory emotions: gile and hate mixed with love and sincerety, a true Shakesperean character...