Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile voices bereft of such Divinity, the voices of England's old aristocracy, spoke without mincing of His Royal Highness. They recalled the oft quoted sneer which he may or may not have uttered when his only sister, Princess Mary, married Viscount Lascelles (Feb. 28, 1922). Said Edward of Wales, reputedly, on that occasion: "Every day I get commoner and commoner, and every day Lascelles gets royaler and royaler." To Lord Lascelles and others of the landed peerage, the remark has seemed to have a backhand twist not inappropriate to Slummer Edward...
...show what it is really like," said Mr. Cornwell to a reporter. Why, one might wonder, did not the commissioner of Mr. Cornwell send a photographer instead? Perhaps because no photograph could achieve that spirit, verve and easy romance that Mr. Cornwell puts into his illustrations. Unsuccessful artists sneer at him because he makes money, and has a studio in the Chelsea Arts Club, London. They forget that every man defines success in his own terms. Dean Cornwell, still young, once defined it as getting enough...
...Superintendents of the Department of Education of New York City, which definitely sets forth the theory that "a teacher is no longer at liberty to freely write, speak, or publish his opinions. We cannot concede that intellectual freedom is synonymous with insolence or vulgarity, or with the right to sneer at our institutions." This is at once the article of faith and the justification of a philosophy of administration which has found its way to greater or less degree into every institution of learning in the United States. Because it confines intellectual curiosity within the bounds of dogma...
President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba and President Jose Serrato of Uruguay maintained an air of Augustan calm last week while their Foreign Ministers quarreled over a sneer. Senor Alfredo Guani, Uruguayan representative in the Assembly of the League of Nations, allegedly launched the sneer by remarking while at Geneva last fall: "Cuba is tied to the U. S. by her Permanent Treaty."* This remark, unheeded by the rest of the world, has been bandied for months by the Cuban and Uruguayan press until, last week, Cuba broke off diplomatic relations with Uruguay, alleging that, "the Cuban national honor...
Because personal, inspiration is almost impossible to isolate or to define it is very easy to pass it over with a sneer about "another myth", or some similar remark. Nevertheless it remains true that long after the date of the invention of gunpowder in the Occident, or the meaning of a certain Shakespearean passage, or even the scores of Harvard-Yale football games are forgotten, the graduate will still carry with him memory of some inspiring teacher with whom he has come in contact and whose influence, exerted perhaps indirectly, has been a vital factor in his life. Professor Copeland...