Word: taunting
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...strings. But the great master made the Brahms Second come out so clear and controlled. Schubert's Unfinished Symphony sing with such freshness that the audience could forget the flocks of frightened sparrows which swooped and twittered above their heads. There was no raggedness when, partly as a taunt to Nazi Germany, he led them through a scherzo by Jewish Felix Mendelssohn...
Bothered by the taunt that an honorary scholastic society ought to do something besides exist, Phi Beta Kappa last week published Vol. 1, No. 1 of an earnestly sprightly organ chronicling 0 B K activities. Facts revealed in the first quarterly issue of the Key Reporter...
Hannibal and Caesar. . . . Every taunt, however bitter; every tale, however petty; every charge, however shameful, for which the incidents of a long career could afford a pretext, has been leveled against him." The Duke of Marlborough was born (1650) John Churchill, but his lines were cast in potent places. As a penurious but presentable gentleman at Charles II's court he found favor with the Duchess of Cleveland, one of the King's own. Once, nearly caught in the act by his royal rival, Churchill jumped featly out of the Duchess's bedroom window. ''Delighted...
Only reluctantly, and under the taunt of inconsistency from Anhenser Busch, did they press for the cessation of the sale of liquor on vessels under the American flag. The New Republic has frequently suggested to the chief upholder of the nobles experiment that he get down to business by stopping drinking in the army and navy and in the immediate vicinity of the capital of Washington...
...could understand the taunt that I was trying to keep my ministerial post," he roared, "if it were that of manager of a garbage removal company! The garbage job, meine Herren, would be more lucrative and less filthy than mine...