Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Well poised, the Lamont agents did not scorn to include picturesque details in their fiscal tabulation. They reported that: 1) Roman Catholic families, enjoined not to attend the cinema, have very widely eschewed the cinema houses which they individually patronized, but have sought others in parts of their cities where they are not known. 2) At Guadalajara many self-styled devout Roman Catholics, imperfectly converted from paganism, are to be seen on their knees in streets praying to Xochimilco, the pagan god of Mexico City's canal district, imploring him to loose floods upon President Calles as a punishment...
Till he showed us for our good- Deaf to mirth and blind to scorn- How we might have best withstood Burdens that he has not borne...
...these will suddenly find themselves exposed in a bright light of irony, but a light playing gently, warm with humor and comprehension. More extraordinary, the legendary figure of Andy Protheroe is so keenly and completely alive that it must irresistibly delight that growing herd whose sophistication includes an uninquisitive scorn of mass coeducation...
...this day courtiers at the Hague recall the Queen Mother's words of blistering scorn when Crown Princess Juliana, precocious at 15, became innocently infatuated with a 30 year old Jewish widower, Gabriel Alara, a sweet-voiced, black-eyed cantor in an Amsterdam synagog (TIME, Dec. 8, 1923.) But such is the winsomeness of Princess Juliana that, in her presence, all is soon forgiven...
...rebuked with measured scorn and thoroughly dressed down by the Speaker, for "the gross indignity offered to Parliament and the vile discourtesy done to the House of Lords" (TIME, July 12), by Laborite M. P.'s who cat-called and booed among themselves while a message from the King was read...