Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Murray Anderson's Almanac is a happy though pretentious volume of which the first illuminated pages cast scorn upon the antiquities of the U. S. theatre and the latter, through the agencies of Jimmy Savo, Trixie Friganza, Roy Atwell and Fred Keating, celebrate in the most conventionally spectacular manner the excellencies of the contemporary revusical. Whatever may be the faults of the contemporary revusical, such entertainments usually profit from the services of a superlative clown, and Jimmy Savo is such...
...Remember that the gentlemen who warned England about the German menace were laughed to scorn...
...manner and was even less successful than the short-lived Black Star Line of Jamaica's Marcus ("Black Moses") Garvey, who was deported from the U. S. last year. Back-to-Africa movements, implying escape as the answer to the assimilation v. segregation problem, are nowadays viewed with scorn by progressive U. S. Negroes...
...this resolution, the 400 of music pointed with scorn at the talking cinema. Small is the loss of their livelihood, said the 400, compared to the incalculable loss which the public must suffer from "canned music." Gone will be all chance for U. S. youth-culture; gone will be all appreciation for artistic renditions. Mechanical, soulless music will pervert and deaden the public musical sense. The resolution continued...
...resourceful carrier explained that he was called on to do this sort of thing pretty often and knew just what was needed. Filled with a renewed scorn for the intelligence of "fool tourists", he clattered on his way, while the Vagabond said good-by to the trout widow and likewise resumed his, resolved to buy at least a dozen tickets the next time the solicitor for the postman's ball comes around...