Word: scorned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bond salesmen as incompetents-John Fox tries to give his readers a general education on how to play the market. While much of his teaching is sound, he often makes investing appear so easy that those who swallow all his advice could easily lose their shirts. He has only scorn for those who advise buying "safe, sound," dividend-paying blue chips, urges them instead to hunt for the overlooked, undervalued long shot. "Every investment," he sums up, "should be made for the primary purpose of causing capital to grow." Those who measure value by dividends he likens...
...painting in perfect joy. Renoir used to drop in at Bougival with a loaf of bread to keep Monet going. Five years later, Monet and his friends-Renoir, Pissarro and Sisley, among others-staged a group show of their work that the French public greeted with howls of scorn. One critic had dubbed the bunch Impressionists after the title of a Monet painting: Impression-Rising...
...English, says Menen, did not shun or scorn the dark-skinned little boy who grew up among them. On the contrary, they tried their best to make him feel at home-and tried so hard that he felt just the opposite. Menen's schoolteachers assured him that, despite his Indian complexion, he was heir, "by virtue of my birth certificate," to all the wonderful inner characteristics that made Englishmen the most cultured, most advanced, most notable people in the world. They even argued that, despite his Indo-Irish parentage, he had, if he tried hard, an excellent chance...
...most of his attacks on Post Editor Wechsler on Wechsler's admitted membership in the Young Communist League 15 years ago (TIME, Jan 21, 1952 et seq.), Rifkind needled: "Do you think that, because Winchell was wrong on Russia in 1945, Winchell ought to be held up in scorn...
...utmost scorn for "intellectual officers" who try to direct battles from an armchair. "The command of men . . . requires more than intellect; it requires energy and drive and unrelenting will." One of his pet peeves was his own quartermaster corps. Quartermasters, he said, "tend to work by theory and base all their calculations on precedent, being satisfied if their performance comes up to standard . . . [They] complain at every difficulty, instead of ... using their powers of improvisation, which indeed are frequently...