Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Expected Scorn. But Hitler needed his sarcasm, too, to cover up the weak points in the German record. He paid a scornful tribute to the astounding fighters who were giving him his greatest opposition. "The blessed land of the totalitarians and of the peasants," he said, "unfortunately has no roads or only fragments of roads. Thus we have to build roads. Some said: 'Well, the Russians get through it.' The Russian is some kind of swamp-human, that we must admit. He is no European. It is a bit more difficult for us to get ahead in that...
...usual, Adolf Hitler's chief scorn was directed at Britain and the U.S. He offered an opinion on the second front question: "If Churchill says: 'We shall leave it to the Germans to worry about where and when we shall open a second front,' then I can only say: 'Mr. Churchill, you have never yet caused me to fear. But regarding the fact that we must worry and think, you are right.' Because if I had an opponent of adequate scope-of real military size-then I could actually calculate approximately where he would attack...
...Lincoln's death inspired Little Tad ("God bless the little orphan boy, a father's darling pride"), post-war scorn for the South jelled into the unwarranted Jeff in Petticoats. The absurd feminine posture of the late '60s, called the Grecian Bend, was ribbed in a song. So was the style of tasseled shoes...
...with singers from every section of Philadelphia society. His grandiose plan, which fizzled, was to anneal all social disparities through the use of "solfa," the powerful archaic open scale which artisans and farmers still knew from the Middle Ages, but which the musically literate upper classes had begun to scorn. In Boston the one-eyed crippled tanner, William Billings, was even bolder. He got the cello into church, and the much more needed pitch pipe. Against the ancient unison of the psalms he offered "fuges." For greater dissonance he recommended the braying of an ass, the filing...
...lost no time in banding themselves into the "Radcliffe Purity League" and attempting to sabotage the love life of their more fortunate and more beautiful sisters of the "dirty thirty." The purity leaguers were the object of the withering scorn of the 30 who lampooned and lambasted them in verse and song. Under the leadership of a glamorous inner circle, euphoniously known as "the filthy few," they advertised the causes of the puritanical attitude in parodies like the following, which was sung to the tune of "Caesar Was a Roman...