Word: spurn
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...their sister (Mildred Natwick) waves an olive branch -they lay siege to the holdings in the family vault via the skeletons in the family closet. Out, eventually, clatter illegitimacies and suicides and a crushed father image. And the disinherited playboy, at the end, has wangled twenty grand, only to spurn...
...Zoli a one-vote majority without the Fascists. Zoli and his ministers prepared to settle comfortably into office. Then, less than 24 hours after the Chamber vote, parliamentary tellers announced that they had carelessly counted as abstainers two Deputies who had actually voted against Zoli. If he continued to spurn Fascist support, anti-Fascist Adone Zoli appeared to be one vote short of a majority. Jeered the Fascist Il Secolo d'ltalia: "Now he must resign because of the Fascist vote-how humiliating-or continue to govern because of the Fascist vote-how shameful...
...tell of virtually the only battle they ever fought-the war between the sexes. They knew or sensed that their culture was on its long day's journey into night-and suggested mostly pleasure to ease the journey. But they were not without stoic courage, and Catullus could spurn Caesar with an epigram...
...Only 16 cities with a population of 25,000 or more still spurn the single, annual, city-wide Community Chest or United Fund type of appeal. Chief among them: New York, with five major federated charity drives each year...
...make friends widely, you will be interesting. If you gossip, you will be slandered; if you mind your own business, you will be liked. If you act like a boor, you will be despised; if you act like a human being, you will be respected. If you spurn wisdom, wise people will spurn you; if you seek wisdom, they will seek you. If you adopt a pose of boredom, you will be a bore; if you show vitality, you will be alive. If you spend your free time playing bridge, you will be a good bridge player; if you spend...