Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ferdinand de Levis (Basil Rathbone) is a hypersensitive Jew who feels the veiled disdain of London socialites who pretend to accept him. He accuses a fellow member of a house party of robbing him. As the evidence gathers against Captain Dancy (Miles Mander), his friends assemble to defend him. The conflicting ties of race and honor that force de Levis to maintain his accusation compel Dancy to take his denial into court. There the racial solidarity that has formed to protect him ends by destroying Dancy, in a scene whose theatrical effectiveness does not mar its honesty...
...decide whether the Saar shall remain under League of Nations rule, unite with France or reunite with Germany. Last week the League's long-suffering Commissioner for the Saar, His Excellency Geoffrey Knox, totaled up the number of Saarlanders who had registered to vote and snapped with British disdain: "A most obvious and patent fraud...
...foreman, whose duty it is to see that all runs smoothly on the plantation. Like Conrad's Nostromo among the cargadores, he stands erect and aloof from his fellows. His contempt for the "pobuckras," as the negroes term white people of mean extraction, is equalled only by the amused disdain in which he holds Yankees and other commercial persons. The little white church in the grove he has never entered...
...Rose, Vernon Duke, Samuel Pokrass and Dana Suesse). Florenz Ziegfeld spent only $13,000 on his first Follies in 1907. Critic Percy Hammond called it a "loud and leering orgy of indelicacy and suggestiveness." A huge success, it began a tradition for gorgeous extravaganzas. Every year, with a mounting disdain of money, Ziegfeld put on a new edition of his Follies. After 1910 all but one opened in Manhattan's New Amsterdam Theatre in mid-June, usually played to out-of-town visitors until the following spring. Ziegfeld called the 1927 edition his last, spent $300,000 to mount...
Wearing his customary expression of befuddled disdain, 230 lb. Jim Browning last week climbed into a Manhattan ring to defend his "world's heavyweight wrestling championship" against lithe, indignant-looking Sandor Szabo, the "Hungarian Adonis." After 50 minutes of serious wrestling, in which Browning broke most of Szabo's holds by wriggling out of the ring, the champion caught Szabo in a "flying scissors." Szabo broke the hold but remained sufficiently dazed to fall into it again ten seconds later. This time, when Browning stopped thrashing his legs, Szabo lay still on his back and Referee Arthur Donovan...