Word: scorning
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...stands to reason that some men in this world would scorn such baubles as medals for deeds heroic or otherwise, and would look for greater recognition, such as their place in history. This TIME has furnished with its Man of the Year contest each December, and the scramble for this honor is what has made the present large crop of dictators and brought the world to its present sorry plight...
...private homes and clubs. It was his 51st consecutive season in the business. Since his first appearance in a window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas who have followed in his footsteps. Said he: "They scare children...
...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...