Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that deprived them of all cut privileges. For the sake of the college, the sophomore class chose formal protest. Instead of open revolt and in so doing placed the faculty in a position of defense. Caught in the wheels of a precedent of three years standing, the fear of scorn from other classes forced the sophomores to carry out a performance which many thought "fool-hardy and dangerous." Acting directly counter to a student-faculty agreement, the student committee was not consulted until the evening following the edict depriving them of cuts...
Fritz Leiber's production of the, "Merchant of Venice" at the Wilbur theatre last night was chiefly notable for its sympathetic portrayal of Shylock. At times he made the Jew into an almost kindly old father who was more often the object of good natured laughter rather than bitter scorn. The chief emphasis was much more on the Jewish side of the problem rather than the usual Chirstian one. This change which came near to turning, the play into a satire on Christianity was decidedly the most attractive and worth while feature of the performance...
...within the Empire, but around the Empire is to rise a tariff wall. Deliberately contradictory, this '"straight-for ward" scheme has been denounced in Parliament by all three parties (TIME, Feb. 10), a fact of which the manifesto proceeded to take scathing note: "Snowden has poured out his scorn: Lloyd George has been moved to put on his full warpaint and to cut his most com ical capers, and Baldwin looks the other way while some of his lieutenants threaten all who dare to believe in the economic union of the empire." In a ringing appeal for contributions...
...brain cells has of course great value as an antidote for the football, pleasure and leisure mad undergraduate. Before many the academic muse can only gape, sigh, and pass on. For these even the shining example of France is of no avail. All that is left to those who scorn the battle of the books is the "paradise of the shirker and the drifter". An examination, of this paradise would be interesting. To the casual observer it might well be summarized by a rough sketch depicting Don Juan in a raccoon skin coat walking celestial streets of gold. However...
According to figures by which Mr. Carlton substantiated his scorn toward the "British menace," Western Union handles 44% of the 51,000 messages sent daily across the Atlantic. Commercial Telegraph...