Word: taunted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bitter Taunt...
Thus finding myself in the full clutch of circumstance, though verified by all human experience, a bitter taunt comes to mind and seems justified. It frets my soul to think that the Yanks, a nation far removed and by no means of the first rank, who with invincible logic found themselves in 1914-1918 too proud to fight, should with homely eloquence in 1927 find themselves too proud to learn to read and write...
...hard of hearing prefer this adjective phrase to "deaf," which has acquired connotations of scorn and taunt...
...mother could taunt thus savagely, the attitude of the Court may be imagined. Little Wilhelm, brilliant, neurotic, effeminate, afraid, was driven to wrench up the very roots of his personality. He would show them! He did. After a purgatory of physical suffering he learned to use his withered arm, to ride, to swagger and to bluster-though he drank little, and did not, says Herr Ludwig, acquire the manly art of "talking bawdy." At last, even grizzled old Wilhelm I, his grandfather, said of his horsemanship at maneuvers, "Well done! I could never have believed you could...
Edward of Wales, irrepressible, does not conceal from Viscount Lascelles his satisfaction that the latter must await his father's death to become an earl. From this unspoken taunt springs the dislike between them which is common knowledge. Therefore, last week, British clubmen cackled loudly at a mot which Lord Lascelles was said to have made anent the London slumming exploits of Edward of Wales: "One would think he got near enough to the dirt at Melton Mowbray [the hunting centre where Edward has so often fallen off his horse into...