Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...comic interlude Balaam appears belaboring his ass, which balks at the shining angel in his path. The High Priest was also intended as a comic figure. In scorn and derision he listens to the prophecies, laughs raucously at Saint Augustine's chant, and harangues his Jewish followers. He contrasts grotesquely with the sober, dignified Augustus who calmly opposes his biblical arguments to the raging High Priest and his followers...
...trouble. Never in my life have I earned $16.66666666666666 per minute. But why shouldn't you give me a chance to? Why leave me at the mercy of my female child, aged eleven, who may win your $100 prize and look down upon my grey hairs in scorn - when they become grey. Should I not have a chance to write and tell you why TIME is just as important to fully grown men and women as to boys and girls...
There were other examples of collegiate waggery, astounding when one considered that they were the product of the feminine intellect. Radcliffe had turned the trick. Collegiate fops who declared that there have been no witty women since the 18th Century were laughed to scorn. The Lampoon was worsted. For a day jubilation pranced in the Crimson editorial rooms-and then, on a plain typewritten sheet, came the cruel, the incredible dénouement...
Author White, oldest living native of U. S. parentage in El Paso, Tex., pours gentle, drawling scorn upon the romanticism with which Zane Greys and Harold Bell Wrights have invested the early inhabitants of the Southwest, and upon the paunchy, pasty-faced commercialism of the present inhabitants. Mock modest, feignedly casual, like a hoary old hell-raiser talking to his grandchildren, he draws upon his indiscriminate youth for gory chunks of six-gun realism quite as studied as that of the Covered Wagon or U. P. Trails he so vigorously denies. He explains the Jehovah complex of a gunman like...
...trainer's orders, the squad was forced to scorn taxicabs and street cars last night and walked the eight blocks from the station to the Hotel Vanderbilt...