Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...just about ruined the underwear business. We could do the same thing. There's Gary Grant, see, smoking a cigarette. He coughs, and somebody says, 'I told you to stop smoking.' Or we could have a very young actress look down at the breakfast food and sneer, 'Do I have to? It's like eating the front lawn...
...Good Guy (Robert Taylor)-he's the one with the prettiest horse-who is about to marry The Girl (Patricia Owens) -she's the one with the gingham dress-when they are kidnaped by The Bad Guy (Richard Widmark)-he's the one with the occupational sneer-who forces them to lead him to The Buried Treasure. First they cross The Bad Lands, then they encounter The Bluecoats, later they come to The Ghost Town, finally they are attacked by The Indians-a tribe of cosmetic Comanches who bite the dust as delicately as though it were...
...other roles are well handled, and I should like to mention at least Dee Victor (Lady Sneer-well), Olive Dunbar (Lady Candour), Frederic Warriner (Sir Benjamin Backbite), Stanley Jay (Old Rowley), and Robert Evans (Charles Surface). The only jarring notes are contributed by Thomas Hill (Sir Oliver Surface), who, fine as he is in the more realistic modern repertory, cannot attune his diction to the period style required here...
...Nothing is better fun for the nonscholarly reader than Graves's vast sneer at the scholarly mind, given at a Yale lecture. In this mock-solemn legpull, Graves gravely gives a pathologicon of pedants' diseases. Sample: cacography,i.e., bad writing, a scholarly affliction that leads to "the inability of college graduates to read or write." For some extreme types of academic affliction, Graves recommends a Demosthenic treatment: "Fill the sufferer's mouth with pebbles and make him explain his theories in simple language to a mixed audience of Texan cowhands and Boston longshoremen...
...Paramount). Clark Gable is the city editor of a big metropolitan daily, a self-made man whose every word proclaims what can be done with good material by bad workmanship. Doris Day is an instructor of journalism. When she invites Gable to address her class, he replies with a sneer: "In the school I graduated from, there were no lectures without four-letter words in them ... I think you're wasting your time, and I prefer not to waste mine...