Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rule out the resolution, he was doomed to failure, for in a party caucus such a resolution is a conventional thing, and cannot be ruled out with any degree of urbanity. This makes his position as the godfather, through Roosevelt, of the candidacy of Joseph V. McKee, and his scorn, also through Roosevelt, of Dr. O'Brien, pretty thoroughly embarrassing. Possibly the Secretary can slide out from under, but he is a man physically and mentally bulky, and not suited to this kind of legerdemain. And Mr. Curry, we may be sure, will look with unexampled vigilance on the Secretary...
Composed almost entirely of double entendres, the sadly cruel little narratives in Without Music all convey an attitude of fatigued scorn, like that of the Parisians in "Mr. Jones's Night Off" who "didn't even bother to look up when he ranted at them...
...Europe to demonstrate in music halls and night clubs their country's one & only original contribution to music. Europe in the past few summers has heard smooth, suave jazz played by Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallèe, Guy Lombardo. It has also heard Negro syncopators who scorn sweet stereotype melodies and easy orthodox rhythms. But this summer Europeans will have a chance to hear hot, pulsing jazz played as they never have heard it before. Last week on the S. S. Olympic Negro Edward Kennedy (''Duke") Ellington sailed with his 14-piece all-Negro band to play...
...same time I would like to direct loud cries of scorn at Mr. G. T. Overman whose bigoted, unfair and illogical letter was printed in the same issue. His wife is probably a meek, browbeaten little woman who "makes his life-and "gives him nothing but a pain in the neck'' by occasionally asking him not to swear so much...
...tired, sterile mind. The War cast a final blight on Debussy's creative powers. One of his last feeble works was a Berceuse Heroïque, dedicated to Belgium's King Albert. In his illness Debussy had become obsessed by his hatred for Germany, by scorn for the way so many French musicians took Germans for their patterns. As a last pro- test he gave himself the title of Musicien Français. But France paid him no honors the day he rode to his grave. His only funeral march was played by Germany's Big Bertha...