Word: contempts
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...these passages, Kittredge patiently read the words that were not there, never with a leer or a snigger, of course, but like a man talking to men. I won't tell you a line that Skeat left in, though I know it, but at this line Kittredge, with ineffable contempt said "This is the most obscene line in Chancer and Sheat left...
Although he was one of the most orndite men in the world, he was always simple and natural in manner. There was however, one respect in which he was unlike the majority of college professors today. Although he often spoke of certain books and writers with contempt, I never heard him swear. Perhaps if he had played golf...
...they were so saturated with it that they could write and even speak Elizabethan English. And in a time when intellectual standards have been slackened, when every arrant sentimentalist can spring a new educational theory and the wine of learning is watered, the austerity of a Kittredge, his snorting contempt for low standards, has been a bracing sea-wind in a hot-house...
Conductor Paige has nothing but contempt for "sauerkraut conductors" who play a lot of foreign stuff. His band will give out Gershwin, Kern, Victor Herbert, Cole Porter, perhaps some serious U.S. music. "Blatant swing," says the League's hand-out (with the League's spelling), "and abstruse, ultra-modern cachophony will be avoided...
Although he possessed honorary degrees for his scholarship from Universities the world over, there was no Ph.D. attached to his string of honors. He had a profound contempt for a degree with an oral examination tied...