Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from being camera shy, the Dionnes seem a shade jaded by acting. One or two of them usually appear to be dreaming. The others engage in deplorably obvious scene stealing, from each other as well as the adults in the cast. The Dionne disdain for story values and decorum is only less marked than their disdain for their public which, in Five of a Kind, is most apparent when they are called upon to render the simple little nursery ballad, Freère Jacques. The Dionnes are so impudent as to sing it in five different keys, squealing and chuckling...
...Olympian disdain for the public, Orlando Weber was quite willing to be delisted, but opposition grew in the ranks of stockholders and Allied gave in after two years. At the same directors' meeting where the $400,000,000 company gave in completely by agreeing to register on the New York Stock Exchange, Chairman Weber turned over his office to almost equally taciturn Henry Atherton. Since then Allied has revealed what proportion of its income comes from the chemicals it makes, what from investments, has gradually expanded its annual statements. Last week it finally revealed most of the miscellaneous securities...
...immortal son. Orator Campinchi declared last week that L'Empereur once said "In time, the sword will always be beaten." Taking this as his Napoleonic, yet democratic text, the navy minister cried: "These words are worthy to be recalled at a time when certain men profess disdain for liberty and a desire to outlaw traditional values which have always assured the nobility of man in our western civilization! Certainly a democratic regime may have weaknesses, but what are they compared with the dangers of uncontrolled power...
...bank, and his own desire to stop making money and take a holiday to find out what life is all about. Johnny Case solves his problem neatly by leaving his fiancee, Julia, to rusticate in the Seton mansion, eloping with her older sister, Linda, who shares his disdain for her family bankroll. If, even in 1928, it was a little difficult to take seriously the plight of a hero and heroine whose chief problem was the prospect of having too much money, it would seem impossible to do so ten years later. Surprise of the third edition of Holiday...
...this is positive liberalism. All this repudiates the old-fashioned concepts under which Williams developed. These concepts were mostly of a negative character: to present both sides of a question, to tolerate opposite viewpoints, to disdain from actual participation in contemporary struggles. Today Williams is becoming imbued with a new liberalism. Talking in negatives is, becoming unpopular. The fight must be for the preservation of education itself. We cannot see the views of those who attack freedom of speech and thought. We cannot be tolerant of those who would destroy tolerance. We cannot refrain from fighting for the organizations, such...