Word: spurn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quoted statistics to show ministers' children out number all others in Who's Who. Educators searched deeper for significant causes, found: 1) Bishop Simeon Arthur Huston, a cultured gentleman, has been (1917-19) President of the State Board of Education, Wyo., but had grieved when he saw his son spurn the classics for science; 2) an uncle and grandfather, both scholars, are also plant breeders, interested in science; 3) Winner Huston, unlike most of the candidates has traveled extensively, following his father from parish to parish, spending six years in Cheyenne, Wyo., two in Baltimore, four in San Antonio...
...given by Chandler for practically the entire cast. Does Chandler react as" one might have expected from Mother Girard's warnings? He does not. He is happy in the happiness of the lovers. But by this time the audience has been prepared for his magnanimity by seeing him spurn a splendidly groomed and golden mistress (Verree Teasdale) for the less lustrous Geraldine, a noble act described in the play as a "virgin complex." The audience is likewise not surprised when, deprived of Geraldine, he goes honeymooning with her sister Elizabeth, the clever virgin. The veteran Robert Warwick is properly...
...complicated misanthropy which enabled him, his interpreters declared, to love the public and spurn humanity, did not preclude certain trifling investigation of the tenderer emotions. One such investigation?attempted in 1918 with Mildred Harris?ended in a divorce. She charged that he starved her, got drunk, hit hard. To down the scurrile rumor that he had been seared by the red-hot lips of Actress Pola Negri, he last year married (in Mexico) his leading lady, Lita Grey, aged...
...ascendancy behind the void of the horizon. Ex-Premier Clemenceau once said: "I have two Ministers with whom I can do nothing; one is Briand, the other is Caillaux. One thinks he is Christ, the other thinks himself Napoleon." It was the Napoleonic streak that caused Caillaux to spurn his Foreign Minister and his Ambassadors and negotiate through agents in the Moroccan Affair (1911) with Germany, which ended by France ceding vast areas of the Congo in return for being allowed to exercise a protectorate over Morocco...
...breathless moment when the Delilah seems about to spurn mere clothing...