Word: contempts
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...though they were her own age, but more conservative. She spoke of her three novels: "My books are forgotten for the moment-but they will be read again." She said of her first husband: "I took the only course that could save us from a life of self-contempt and spiritual dishonor." Of her second husband, handsome, upright and slender, with trembling hands and' bushy eyebrows, Mrs. Jardine said: "He was a passionate ornithologist-that is, he knew all about birds." She ended the chapters of her conversations with such studied, melodramatic disclosures as: "I have never seen...
...Asia, he said, "has sunk to subhuman depths of ferocity. Race antagonisms lie behind it. We are now creating a generation of American and Japanese youth seared with the brand of mutual hate and contempt." Invasion, bombing and unconditional surrender will be followed by the outlawry, duplicity and mutual suspicion which military occupation is bound to bring. And this may lead to a nationalistic government cool to foreign Christianity and firmly behind Japan's ancient and ingrained ancestor-emperor worship...
...picnic. Touring the conquered Siegfried Line, the Prime Minister gaily flicked ashes on the futile, grey-green, concrete dragon's teeth which Hitler had set up to keep tanks out of the German heartland. There were hints-decently obscured by censorship-that Mr. Churchill may have expressed his contempt in even more emphatic manner...
...Stalin, she did become one of the very few to receive regrets from him: "Very sorry . . . but too busy with the Poles." Playwright Hellman, who spoke no Russian when she left on her trip but came back with a few words, declared that she had "nothing but contempt for people who go to Russia . . . stay six weeks without even speaking the language," and come back authorities...
...earn from $150 to $1,000 a week. With a trade jargon all their own, they classify themselves as "payolas" (the affluent and gift-bearing), "car men" (those with limousines to transport bandleaders) and "sitters" (who operate exclusively in night clubs). The "weepers," who are. looked on with contempt by their colleagues, appeal to a contact's sympathy...