Word: disdained
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...only minimize or emphasize news to fit your disdain, but distort it to give rise to the spectacular. These are the attributes of yellow papers, and I, who for months have been an ardent admirer of your publication, feel disappointed...
...accepts this attitude among modern thinkers without question, asserting only a lack of confidence keeps them from the full investigations asserting faultless logical conclusions which would consummate all the desired changes. Yet this power over the malleable future may be an unsupportable presumption, a possibility which he discounts with disdain. His thesis is that with patience and care the film that now obscures the eyesight of intelligence can be cleared away. "When People in reasoning, they do so in obvious ways by violating obvious rules," he says. But it would seem that if the errors were obvious, even an intelligence...
...Meanwhile there is a country dance. Jackson falls in love with the local belle argues state rights, the purpose of the Constitution, and the excise tax on whiskey, and forces the duels before their time. One man he kills; the other is so drunk that Jackson fires in harmless disdain over his head. The last act he spends in the girl's cabin, in love making for a time, then in explaining that he is a troublemaking fool (which he is) and his departure...
Even Thackeray, most generally known by the grave morality of Vanity Fair, did not seem to disdain a coarser style in his personal correspondence. There is a letter in the collection addressed to one Carmichael Smyth, giving the news of Thackeray's return to England. The author has illustrated it with a most unusual cartoon depicting a family lying in various stages of unconciousness about a parlor. He explained in the letter, that the scene is his idea of the reaction of Mr. Smyth's family to the unexpected news, and represents mother having hysterics, sister falling off the piano...
...Miss Susan Brandeis, Manhattan, was educated at Bryn Mawr College, schooled in law at Chicago University. She is third partner in the law firm of Kirsch, Edelman and Brandeis. She scorns feminine foibles in dress and manner, works hard, studies harder, plays little. On levity, on publicity, she pours disdain. She sits late, rises early. As special assistant district attorney she prosecuted anti-trust cases for the State of New York. "My daughter," says Justice Brandeis, "is a self-made...