Word: scorning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Added to the usual list of farmer-fattening measures, these last week clearly demonstrated Congressional scorn for any policy of peeling-paring, pinchfist economy...
Then he turned the full force of his scorn on Germany's partner: "This whipped jackal, Mussolini, who to save his own skin made all Italy a vassal State of Hitler's Empire, comes frisking up at the side of the German tiger with yelpings not only of appetite . . . but even of triumph." A realist as always when he meets reversals, Churchill minced no words in describing Britain's peril. "You know I never try to make out that defeats are victories. . . . It is certain that fresh dangers . . . may come upon us in the Mediterranean...
...inwardly men were asking anxious questions. And leaders in Britain sensed this. In their various ways they answered the questions. Winston Churchill's great prose and withering scorn calmed and delighted his people. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Kingsley Wood, announcing two new war loans, made the people proud by telling how they had subscribed $5,076,000,000 for the war effort in a year. Lord Horder allayed the people's concern about epidemics with announcement of steps to rid underground shelters of infectious pests...
...stands to reason that some men in this world would scorn such baubles as medals for deeds heroic or otherwise, and would look for greater recognition, such as their place in history. This TIME has furnished with its Man of the Year contest each December, and the scramble for this honor is what has made the present large crop of dictators and brought the world to its present sorry plight...
...private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas who have followed in his footsteps. Said he: "They scare children...