Word: disdainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago one of Mahmoud's Greenshirts attempted to shoot Nahas in the street. When the young zealot, Abd El Kadar, was arraigned in court, Nahas instead of demanding the extreme penalty contemptuously asked damages of one piastre (5?). Lest the Wafd make too much capital of this disdain. Premier Mahmoud's Government hastily held Abd El Kadar for criminal trial...
This vast gallonage obviously cannot be consumed by any small group of connoisseurs. It must have a mass market. This fact does not lessen pungent little Harry Caddow's contempt for those who still disdain California for French wine. He does not like to think about cosmopolites who know the best French vintage years and can afford to buy chateau-bottled wines. Recently he exclaimed: "It makes the skin roll up your back like a window shade...
...from uncivilized are the natives, for, in their disdain of modern conveniences and the furious speed of polo-shirted tourists, they flaunt a sophistication far more tangible than the bored expression of those who have lived a life of smiles and champagne--theirs is a sophistication sprung from the steaming earth, the planting of their crops, and the legends of their ancestors and their ancestors' gods. They are calmly content in their ignorance, and even if they were given the means whereby to learn of the modern world, the traditions of centuries would keep them as narrow minded and oblivious...
...eleven years since then Southern teams have played in the Rose Bowl six times. Southern Methodist, Alabama, Tulane and Georgia Tech, colleges which the East and Midwest had previously looked on with disdain, turned out teams good enough to be invited to play the West's best. Today, football in the South still differs from football in other sections of the country. It is frequently played under a hot sun, while spectators sit in shirt sleeves eating ice cream, and players go onto the field barelegged, but the quality of Southern football wins respect from coast to coast...
...these things provide grounds for those who question whether he has any title to be called "liberal." It is true, however, that none of them was pointed to with scorn until his opinions ceased to please those who now look upon him with disdain...