Word: jeer
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...turbulent throng of close to one thousand students jammed Memorial Hall triangle yesterday noon to applaud, jeer, or merely contemplate a "Save the Peace" rally...
King's Coffee. But Italians long since had learned to jeer at their little king. Two attempts to assassinate Victor Emmanuel failed prior to World War II. Casualty lists and home-front privations in war did not allay the discontent. Ran one popular coffeehouse rhyme...
...Leventhal is living alone in his Manhattan apartment while his wife helps her mother move to Charleston. In the barbaric heat of late August he is beset by a nearly forgotten old acquaintance, Kirby Allbee. Down & out, dirty, half drunk, Allbee turns up to jeer at Asa, "discussing" with him a guilt that is both preposterous and somehow plausible...
...strictly limited appeal. Although the Meeting House was not filled and there was room for any of his disciples who so desired to come in and gaze at his august presence, his audience included only about 35 people, mostly old ladies, who had come to listen rather than to jeer. Except for the demonstration against him, Smith's appearance would have attracted about as much attention as the weekly meeting of the Ladies Sewing Circle...
...long, sporting afterglow in Europe, was a much more interesting woman than is suggested in this movie. It is also possible that a movie which showed the making of those first, primitive flickers as it really happened would be good for a lot more than a cheerful jeer...