Word: disdain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...three ways. First, many men of exceptional intellectual endowments waste themselves and their abilities just because their very brilliancy makes them unwilling to undergo necessary mental drudgery. Again, a man's academic possessions interfere with his possibilities when they are accompanied by academic snobbishness which leads them to disdain the wisdom of intelligent but nonacademic persons. And thirdly, a man's intellectual possessions may be injurious to his mental possibilities if he allows what has been taught him to harden into formulae...
...passing a respectable old age as a stable for the President's horses, would have made the article still more interesting. The illustrations are well chosen: the "old boys" who sat at the high table in the Hall where Lawton manoeuvred for the extra glass of port might not disdain this great hall; and the pictures of the old and new serving rooms and the new kitchen show more clearly than can words the great change that enables one now at any time happily to undertake that journey which in the old days only the curious dared, and they only...
...sell it. Both Pepito, his ease-loving friend, and Consuelo, his wife, are confident that he will find a purchaser. On the other hand, Dona Paz, the traditional mother-in-law, scoffs at it, and praises, instead, the daubing of Pepito, whom she has secret hopes of marrying. Her disdain is more than offset by the enthusiasm of Pepe's father, a comical, loving old gentleman with an unmanageable tongue. Pepe returns with the picture unsold. Soon after this shock, a millionaire plantation owner, Don Manuel, comes from Havana to help Pepito, his nephew, whom he has never seen...