Word: condescendingness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This looks like the dawn of a new era in the foot-ball discussion. If the perverse spirit of Yale will be kind and considerate this time, and condescending enough to come down from so lofty a station, and meet Princeton half way, the clouds will forever he cleared away...
The Yale News, in condescending to notice our editorial in reference to President Eliot's remarks on the subject of base-ball, asks us "to reconcile the president's position with the attitude assumed by the Harvard committee in withdrawing from the conference in the way that they did." It...
His Lordship lit a cigarette thoughtfully, and with an air of condescending grace that made him a hero in Tommie's inexperienced eyes. But she was not awed; American girls never are. She was simply roused to enthusiasm. She said, -