Word: shrug
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...dignity of a hoyden who scorns the hypocrisy of petticoats. Undoubtedly, it lacks refinement and many another virtue. "Honestly, Tex," says a stage policeman along in the second act, "don't you think virtue pays?" To which the Soul of Candor replies with a tolerant shrug, "Sure, if you got a market for it, sure it pays...
...barricade of sandbags and barbed wire was erected last week by perspiring young French Royalists outside the Paris office of their obstreperous news organ, L'Action Française. Parisians stopped to loiter, to tip one another the wink, to shrug and pass on. They knew that fiery, effervescent Royalist Editor Leon Daudet must be preparing with dramatic Daudeterie to resist arrest. A sentence of five months in jail "for defaming the police" has hung over him these two years; and only a fortnight ago he refused once more to set a time convenient to himself to serve...
...Oxonian would feel injured, if only in principle, by fresh curtailment of his freedom to be with Oxoniennes. But many another Oxonian-for Oxford's flower, full-blown these many centuries, is here and there wilted to a decadence unknown in U. S. universities, as yet-would shrug and smile secretly to think that in their concern for the conduct of mixed company in Oxford, the authorities had continued to disregard well-known practices among athletes and poets, dons, esthetes and choir boys...
...buttresses, and not a trace of the moss-grown old pump remains but in the undergraduate attitude, all is bustle and commercialism, coldness, and discourtesy. I asked two young snobs with Dickey ties to direct me to the headquarters of the Graduate Day Committee. Their only reply was a shrug and "So's your old man". Except for old Max Keezer, I did not meet a single friendly or civil person in Cambridge and I left in disgust before noon...
...render obedience to the Pope as the chief of bishops; they balk at infallibility and cherish the hope that in some unforeseen fashion the bars may be lowered that they may enter in. 'Do you think that will ever be?' I asked. The only answer was a shrug of the shoulders...