Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Although "regular" medical men scorn "Manipulative Surgeon" Barker's methods for not being based on the surgical science that they know, there can be no minimizing of his successes. Recently, while disporting himself in the waters of the Gulf of Genoa (at Alassio where he now lives in modest dalliance), he struck his head against bottom. When he reached surface (he told his Manhattan greeters last week), his head hurt; his neck was stiff; he could not turn his head. Something was out of joint. He wrapped his powerful fingers about his neck, manipulated the bones, wrenched. There...
...playwrights are very busy proving to their friends and admirers that there is no justice, that good taste has no place in modern critical qualities, and finally, that those works which were awarded the Pulitzer Prizes were the ones above all others which should have been rejected with scorn. And in all these intimate post mortems the gargantuan form of reality, of actuality, rears its ugly head; for the prizes have been chosen and nothing except a nicely calculated refusal on the part of the winners can alter that fact...
...equality of men and women. One is therefore obliged to take the view that it is not libelous to affirm that a woman has overstepped the proprieties. To take any other view would be to affirm that all women and girls who do so are deserving of public scorn. This, too, is contrary to the spirit of our times. I therefore declare the action before me dismissed...
...clock, Dr. Friedrich will talk on "Judicial Supremacy in Europe." Americans too apt to scorn any system dissimilar to the best American style, give little thought to schemes of judicature so different from their own as those of Europe...
...whole new field for U. S. book publishers by importing the best European literature and selling it in de luxe print and jackets for fancy prices. Publisher Knopf was quick to see that any large group of people who were being taught to survey their own country with scorn and amusement would form a concentrated market for his imports. Doubtless he also felt some of that superior altruism which a generous man, conscious of his own culture, experiences in helping to uplift the herd. For though Editor Mencken stoutly denies that he is a reformer, an apostle of anything...