Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There are things in New Haven which Harvard men cannot understand, there are things in Cambridge which the men from Yale look upon with astonishment and a certain sceptical disdain. But there is one point upon which the men of both institutions are equally agreed; they want to make the Harvard Yale game the finest sporting event in the country...
...college baseball league in which Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, Cornell and Pennsylvania have accepted places has caused some comment on the independent attitude always maintained by Harvard toward associations in intercollegiate sport. Perhaps the commonest interpretation put on this detachment has read into the Harvard athletic policy a disdain of such leagues. "Old high-hat Harvard" is the phrase most often used to describe what is felt to be an independence amounting to conscious self-righteousness...
Stokowski is said never to read the newspapers, to disdain his public. Nevertheless, he scheduled for his next and last New York concert, a sure-fire Bach-Wagner program...
...last week, was greeted and dined by Manhattan writer-folk. He is of Welsh-Irish ancestry, lives in St. Germain outside Paris, sends a regular column of comment to the London Daily Mail. He is an authoritative medievalist, a tireless scholar who disclaims his labors in his disdain for watery-veined pedants. He hates the "arty." His distant cousin is the more-famed Wyndham Lewis, vorticist, painter, novelist (Tarr), philosopher (Time and Western Man), a versatile, experimental da Vinci of the modern art world. Both are World War veterans, who combine literary enthusiasm with active lives...
Most unfashionable painters feel and express disdain for fashionable portrait painters. This disdain is in many cases justified because many fashionable portrait painters are ridiculous fakes. Disdain is not usually felt for Sir William Orpen with his careful, photographic half-tones, sometimes so emphasized that his faces are overmodeled. Among the most prolific of painters, he held, in 1918, a vast exhibition of War-paintings, of which he gave a large number to the British nation. He has written books as well as painted pictures, but less ably...