Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Next to insincerity she scorned unintelligence, and was no respecter of persons in giving utterance to her scorn. "The Faculty," she said, "are the limit!" Certain modern methods in the Office she was pleased to call "the deficiency system." To her mind efficiency was the prerogative of individuals: any encroachment of the mechanical on the personal she balked at. "I was born saucy"; and, again, "I may lose my temper; but I never lose my head...
...that British army which sailed up the Nile to relieve General Gordon at Khartoum (1884). Since then "Cooks' " has stood in travel service for something equivalent to "Sterling." Today the Chairman of "Cooks'," a Knight of Grace, has not strayed so far from temperance as to scorn milk-either shaken or with crackers before...
...captious will recall the coincidence that the majority of these leaders are themselves of faintly Hebraic name and appearance. As formulated by Will Hays, the edict in question was, "that no pictures be issued that could offend the Jew or cause the thoughtless to point the finger of scorn...
...today write either consciously or unconsciously for the benefit of nasty Wall Street. Most of Money Writes! is devoted to a mildly interesting, not very convincing attempt to prove this theory. One by one Joseph Herges-heimer, Gertrude Atherton, et al., are pointed at with the finger of scorn and it is all pretty terrible-if true. Upton Sinclair has long enjoyed the privilege of being far better known than any of his books...
Possibly there will be an eventual friction brought about by the personal crusades of these men, of Mitchell and Magruder. Already certain of Mitchell's ideas are being looked upon with other than scorn and contempt; the fate of Magruder's cause lies with the discretion of the Navy Department whose attitude is that the king and the king's henchmen can do no wrong...