Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general in the White House McCarthy had only a sneer and a "presumption" that traitors still hold high posts in the U.S. Government. On this general theme McCarthy and seven other speakers of similar kidney, e.g., Indiana's Senator Bill Jenner, Indiana Lawyer Clarence Manion, steamed up the capacity crowd of 3,000 (collected by For America, a right-fringe political organization) for three hours. And at each and every mention of the name Eisenhower, the crowd responded with a resounding chorus of boos-a reminder that the U.S. has also always been blessed with its share of gassy...
...employment, Dreiser's philosophy of poverty is in eclipse. Few today will respect his ultimate decision, but it must be conceded that his fiction came from deep in American life. Dreiser could not bear a world in which beloved brothers could die friendless, in which foreign aristocrats could sneer, wax rich and make wars, in which women-as in An American Tragedy-could be murdered because they became pregnant at socially inappropriate times...
...second First Lady, a divorcee of 32, was duly ensconced in the presidential palace at Bogor. Cleaving loyally to the first First Lady, 31-year-old Fatmawati, all that the indignant clubwomen could do was to snub the interloper (TIME, Oct. 24) and refer to her with a sneer as "that woman in Bogor...
...skillfully built parody of a member of the studio audience determinedly prompting Contestant Walker all the way to the summit question. NBC's Sid Caesar showed hopeful flashes of his old form with a rousing, doubletalk version of Pagliacci. Neither Groucho Marx, flourishing his cigar and convivial sneer, nor Jimmy Durante, with his patented songs and spotlighted exit, saw any reason for changing the formulas that have kept them among the leaders for years...
...glasses because he dines alone-no longer seem as real as realism would suggest. His world, as "simple and faithless as a smile and a shake of the hand," no longer exists. The world of 1955, distressed by its own faithlessness, may long for something more than the hard sneer of a peasant who has made good in the city. But the man had power and style, and his best stories have the indestructibility of the peasant's Sunday bowler...