Word: scorning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...population, energy and talents to the Dominions without diminishing the great collective entity which they think of as "Britain and the Empire." The world might get a jolt if they were right. But most of them still think of Britain as their natural home, and look with scorn on the minority, noisiest in London, which talks of migrating because "this country...
Dunster House has been compared by its members to the state of Texas in its self-sufficient attitude toward the rest of the University. Physically the most isolated of the Houses, and injected with the most rambunctious and tightly-knit spirit, residents scorn secession from their neighbors, sure in the conviction that the summer winds blow cooler and the proctor's beer flows freer...
Widespread apathy contrasted with these cases. Low unit on the poll was Dudley, where only 47 out of a possible 300 votes were registered. Ballot-box custodians reported complete scorn in many cases. Yardlings plagued vote-tailliers with numerous "go to hell" comments, while among the Houses, Kirkland stood out for several charges of "clique" written in on the ballots...
...makes a Change." At first London was jittery; it expected clashes and cracked skulls. But at Smithfield (meat), at Billingsgate (fish), at Covent Garden (vegetables), the strikers stood aside, watching placidly, but with professional scorn, as the soldiers inexpertly tugged and hauled unaccustomed burdens. Sighed one striking porter as a young Coldstream Guardsman struggled with a sack of potatoes: "He'll rupture hisself if he don't watch...
...buried in a dung pit. ... I was placed in an asylum for war-crazed, shell-shocked and insane soldiers." Grosz emerged from the asylum a pale hurricane of rage. He had reason to hate the men who had been on top in Germany, and "among the masses I found scorn, mockery, fear, oppression, falsehood, betrayal, lies and filth-in abundance." In beaten Germany he found an abundance of subjects, drew thousands of dagger-sharp drawings of pig-faced whores, vulpine businessmen, phthisical Army officers with eroding marble jaws, laborers coughing blood, and clerks sobbing on their knees. His graphic...