Word: scornful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Came the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Foch seemed to divine, by intuition, that President Woodrow Wilson's pledge that the U.S. would guarantee French security was wasted breath. After the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty, Marshal Foch declared with concentrated scorn in an authorized interview...
...only an able fox-huntsman. . . ." There is no such word as "fox-huntsman." Webster might consider that anyone who hunts is a huntsman, but if our contributors on equine matters used the word loosely in The Alain Liner, we should receive letters of friendly ridicule, if not scorn...
Duveen. For four days Sir Joseph had been a harried witness. He had flayed the Hahn picture, testily calling its left eye "dead," "very dead," and "beadlike." On the fifth day he covered the whole damozel with one more coating of scorn. "She is a fat person!" he gibed. "A peasant type." Then he joyously pointed to a reproduction of the Louvre Belle. "This is a great lady of the period." Reverting to the Hahn painting he described the shoulders as flabby, the arms as puffy, the breast as lacking modeling, the embroidery as untrue to Leonardo's period...
Finally, what was once the impish and diverting anti-U. S.-ism of M. Balieff has soured into an apparent U. S.-phobia. Two years ago in Paris, the attack could be seen coming on. Spleen and scorn for les Americains, who had been fools enough to make M. Balieff rich, were explicitly on his lips in Paris. Last week, in Manhattan, they lurked in his innuendo, deadened the jollity that once beamed from his round Cheshire-cat-face...
...peaceful Sunbury Court at Sunbury on the Thames, England, 63 uniformed officers of the Salvation Army High Council squatted in the meeting-room, listening with silent approval-a few with speechless scorn-to the impassioned oratory of the vice president of the Council, Lieutenant Commissioner William Haines. His glumly ascetic countenance became vitalized as he denounced one-man control of the Salvation Army, justifying his part and that of his colleagues in deposing Gen. Bramwell Booth, which they had done but two days before this meeting of the Council (TIME...