Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University to see the graduation exercises. Along the sides of the road, sitting their underbred nags with easy grace, rode the rag-tag and bob-tail of Lincoln. Indian fighters, many of them had been, and some still were. They eyed the newly-victoria'd business aristocrats with scorn, and spat tobacco-chaws with a nonchalant lack...
...would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has no existence in Russia and to dismiss with ill-natured contempt and scorn the hard-won political freedom of western democracies...
Behind doors tightly locked to save the losers from the scorn of their roommates, Freshman swimmers who have not received numerals will compete in the annual championship at 4 o'clock this afternoon. Seven events will be held for the bashful mermen...
...brasses, tympani, cymbals. Shostakovich again uses a waltz, this time to satirize the prowling father-in-law who catches Sergei as he climbs out the window. In the flogging scene the audience could fairly hear the swish of the whip. When the father-in-law lay dying, Soviet scorn of the church was equally apparent. The priest who performed the perfunctory rites sang a song which sounded like a rowdy equivalent of "Hail. Hail, the Gang's All Here!" Musicians in last week's audience sat fascinated by the uncanny way the orchestra described each character, each situation...
...things expected of a Harvard man, almost without saying, is to scorn the antics of Joe Penner, but the fact remains that that gentleman can be really quite a funny fellow. His present performance, however, is merely a succession of his stock phrases, strung together with the least possible justification of any absorbing continuity. As a result, only those who worship at the shrine of "You nasty man!" and "Don't never do that!" and can thrill to hear them repeated "in person" will get much enjoyment out of the headliner. The Boswell Sisters are a different story, doing their...