Word: snarl
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...sarcastic in your review when writing upon Mr. T. Dreiser's book? Did you personally ever try to do a bit of real writing? Your reviews remind me a great deal of the Mexicans. They hate Gringoes like the dickens, but all they really do is snarl and growl like curs. In the Jan. 25, 1926 issue of TIME, under "Books," p. 31, you act like you have a personal grudge against the writer...
...child-like in its puny efforts to snarl and be disagreeable...
...Roman Catholic Church, were dropped. "Obey" and "with all my worldly goods I thee endow" were dropped from the marriage service. Such expressions as "miserable sinners," "the vengeance of God," "the wrath of God" were dropped as medieval. ' The proposal to change "the grin of a dog" to "the snarl of a dog" was defeated. The Litany was amended to petition for those who travel "by land and water or by air." New prayers for state legislatures, law courts, schools and colleges, and social justice were adopted...
...Wells would send a message. Curious hundreds would be sure to jostle for a glimpse of the mournful Bryan, whose moans were loud in the land as, defeated on a Presbyterian issue (see RELIGION), he advertised his leadership of the crusade against "monkeyism." With a snarl or two at Chattanooga, who seemed to covet its juicy bone of publicity, Dayton made ready. The Progressive Club "drove" for $5,000 for additional publicity. A drug store re-named itself "Monkeyville Soda Fountain" and dispensed miniature simians. To house the crowds expected, the railroad company was asked for a fleet of Pullman...
Drum fire sounded in the Reichstag as debate upon the policies and approval of the new Luther Cabinet opened. Political howitzers fired large, explosive insults, while the smaller guns kept up a din of hissing. Now and again a single rifleman let fly with a derisive snarl. Rarely has a more turbulent session been seen in the historic debating chamber, which was literally filled with growls, gnarls, mutterings and other verbal abuses...