Word: disdained
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...serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician boatman, a lively but retiring enthusiast. His bitterest disdain is windless weather because it makes yachting "not very enjoyable...
...intolerable self righteousness, [Sir John] reminds one of a teetotaler who all his life looked with wrathful disdain on any one who touched a drop of alcohol, however diluted, and suddenly when he was approaching his seventh decade took to drink, and you saw him rolling from one side to another, and then he ended his career by entering into an inebriates' home...
...more conservative, the more narrowed, and the dependent individual; on the other the more radical, the more care-free member, relatively independent of society or of business. Between the two there has been and will be the conflict between old age and youth that in the latter case approaches disdain and in the former tends to paternalistic superiority...
...thoroughbred racing camel can run 150 mi. a day, carry a pack load three days without water. The best racers are Mehara dromedaries. They are mostly bred by that old tribe whose men haughtily and in disdain of modern usage still wear veils with their black tunics: the Tuaregs. The riders sit on small saddle-platforms placed in front of the dromedary's single hump. They hold rods in their hands and reach forward with a peculiar, tense movement to tap the camel on the left side of the neck when they want him to turn right...
...political bugaboos, the "soldier vote," had stampeded an overwhelming majority of Senators and Representatives toward H. R. 17054, regardless of their private judgment. Fortnight ago the House had rammed the measure through by a 363-to-37 vote. Last week came the Senate's turn to show its disdain of White House opinions...