Word: scorns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fearless with what scorn...
...scorn I must accept...
...vote-catching expedition in Harlem. The Senator from New York has his mind and eye on the future." New York's lumbering senior Senator Royal Copeland then rose to explain unnecessarily, as he was to do many times as the day progressed, that Tom Connally's scorn was directed not at him but at his colleague in name only, junior Senator Wagner...
...amusement that come from social historians. Once Moses Coit Tyler wrote: "No one who would penetrate to the core of early American literature, and would read in it the secret history of the people in whose minds it took root..., may by any means turn away, in lofty literary scorn, from the almanac--most despised, most prolific, most indispensable of books, which every man uses, and no man praises; the very quack, clown, pack-horse, and pariah of modern literature, yet the one universal book of modern literature...
...rather robust ladies who had apparently travelled from afar to see, not Harvard, but the cadets in action against Harvard. The larger of the two ladies had taken it upon herself to be a guide for all those within shouting distance, for, with a fine combination of emphasis and scorn, she pointed a finger at the gaunt bulk of Sever standing solemnly, patiently, in the background...