Word: scornfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Practical" men always scorn the philosopher as ineffectual, blathering away while the caissons and tumbrels roll. But philosophers deviously have their days. Absent-minded Philosopher Georg W. F. Hegel innocently begot a dialectic, which begot Marx's socialism, which begot V. I. Lenin, who begot a revolution that made "practical" men tremble in their boots. Russell and Reiser hope that their logic, too, will somehow beget a revolution...
...streets outside. Again his best bits were the comic passages: he ridiculed the Republican leadership for opposing many defense measures before World War II began, for saying "There will be no war"-and for claiming now that he had failed to build up national defense. He said, scorn sharpening his voice: "Today they complain that this Administration has starved our armed forces, that our Navy is anemic, our Army puny, our air force piteously weak. This is a remarkable somersault...
When embattled Britain bowed to Japanese threats two months ago by closing the Burma Road, China's reaction was immediate and blazing. From the Communist Sian Jih Pao to the Ministry of Finance's China Times the whole Chinese press showered scorn and hate on the British Empire...
...Catalano saw his would-be assassin, he went white with terror, hid behind detectives. But as he listened to the whining confession, Catalano took heart, came out from behind his protectors, stared unbelievingly at the cringing fat man in the chair. At the end his smile was tipped with scorn. As for Vito Gurino, it looked as if he would end his story in another chair...
...Nazi scorn of democracy ("Only autocracy was fit to control the world...