Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...surprisingly high, one may feel well fortified against the entrenchments of the imminent winter, when hegiras to Boston seem long and arduous. The infant industry has a way of filling in empty hours which is pleasant and occasionally beneficial. It serves well as a target for the highbrow's scorn but it also serves equally well as a remedy for his ennui...
...Fascist journals of Italy expressed matter-of-fact approval, tinged with scorn for the inefficiency which delayed the execution for seven years...
Last week the Journal of the A. M. A. in announcing the joint Chicago meeting of those "outlaw" groups condensed all its scorn and contempt into a single paragraph. Under the headline "BIRDS OF A FEATHER" it shouted out names: "No doubt Chicago merits this visitation as a return for its sins. In 1925, the Journal spoke briefly relative to the American Association for Medico-Physical Research, a society organized in 1911 by the outstanding quack of the century, Albert Abrams. The organization was an outgrowth of the American Association for Spondylo-therapy, the term 'spondylo' referring...
...alive. Recently this great soldier and tactician picked up and read two fat volumes† about the War from the sale of which Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill is drawing considerable pelf. As he read. Sir Frederick apparently began to experience a sense of scorn. Here were errors of fact, sloppiness, perversions of truth and everywhere the pink and soapy touch of superficiality. What...
...hard of hearing prefer this adjective phrase to "deaf," which has acquired connotations of scorn and taunt...