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...their wives for snubbing the pretty young actress-bride of Yugoslavia's chief of staff just because she had not fought in World War II. Snorted Djilas: the girl was only 13 years old when the war ended. Besides, who were these wives to point a finger of scorn? asked Djilas-and proceeded to describe in unmistakable detail and almost unprintable terms the premarital practices of some of these lady war veterans. (Tito himself married a 28-year-old army major and partisan fighter...
...when the Kaiser fell. Through the sad days of the Weimar Republic and the ugly early days of Naziism he was respected as veteran mayor of Cologne and a wily politician, until he was forced out of office by the Nazis, for whom he showed nothing but flinty scorn. Had he died at 70, he would not have rated a paragraph in most U.S. newspapers...
When I was a lad in college, all my wise compatriots were busy writing learned essays on world matters, communism, literature and the arts. Some were busily joining the Communist party... A few of us earned the finger of scorn from our betters since we devoted ourselves mainly to the pursuit of happiness, coeds and corn whisky and read only the sports pages. Of that group, most of them grew up to succeed. The long-skulls who wrote the learned essays for the campus paper wound up as minor clerks and press agents...
...This man is very cunning!" cried Prosecutor Azemudeh. Mossadegh ruminatively lifted his head and, in the voice of an ailing Guernsey, commented: "Moooooooo!" Azemudeh recited a vast series of crimes committed by Mossadegh against the nation. Said Mossadegh: "Mooooo!" Azemudeh poured scorn and shame on the man who had defied the Shah of Iran. Mossadegh replied: "Moooooo...
While more than half the people in the survey scorn the drunk--particularly the inebriated female, three-fifths of the undergraduates would permit drinking in moderation. And over "40 percent of the students accept the quiet abstainer but express rejection of the militant...