Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sword is a new-fangled arrangement, dating de jure from the reign of Emperor Meiji who introduced an Occidental (Prussian) style of Constitution in 1889 and de facto from the founding of Japan's oldest political party (Seiyukai) in 1900. Naturally the Army & Navy with their ancient traditions scorn Japanese Constitutionalism which is only in its swaddling clothes. The lower classes (both proletarians arid peasants) tend to approve each fresh assassination of a politician or financier by a civilian or a member of the fighting services...
Never was his rhetoric more abusive, his manner more forceful. Appealing to what he called the Mass Mind he poured out the vials of his political scorn on President Hoover and all G. O. Policies. Resounding popular demonstrations greeted him everywhere. Even in Washington the House Ways & Means Committee gave him its respectful attention while he flayed the present currency system. The citizens of Charlotte, N. C. shrieked with ignorant delight when he cracked an obsolete joke which the audience thought was an original Alfalfaism.* The South Carolina General Assembly listened in rapt attention while he outlined the economic...
...instant has the Mahatma Eilshemius ceased to shout his scorn of every other painter in the world, his disdain of every art gallery that does not recognize the importance of his work. But he stopped painting in 1920. A few have suspected that he realized then that his pictures of Samoa, his ruins by moonlight, his strange nude ladies bathing in improbable streams were as far as he could go. Last week he grew suddenly frank with his press agent. "I won't paint again," said Louis Eilshemius, "I'm just a comedian...
...twins is greater than among babies born singly. The same study, carried out by Paul Wilson, research assistant, showed that older women have twins oftener than young mothers, that twins have twin children no more frequently than regularly born parents. Comforting to twins was the scotching of the old scorn that twins are not as smart as other people...
...pioneers, who sacrificed everything for adventure and for virgin land crept west from the Mississippi in their clumsy prairie schooners. If those men and women had stopped to reckon costs, where would they have been? Hill, and Vanderbilt, and the elder Morgan, would have laughed to scorn the man who questioned every motive before it even crossed his lips...