Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show has its palpable good points -for a starter, George Abbott's direction. When the scarlet ladies, decked out by Cecil Beaton with inspired bad taste, stomp the stage, celebrate the flesh and sneer at the clergy, Tenderloin has a fleering, gamy exuberance. Again, when the stage rocks with the round-dance economics of How the Money Changes Hands, or Ron Husmann rolls out The Picture of Happiness, there is sass and to spare. Jerry Bock's score is better than average, and the Sheldon Harnick lyrics are better than the score...
...case of "Aunt Allie" Sullivan Earp, wife of Virgil, the little woman even had a sewing machine; she took it with her wherever the trigger-happy Earp brothers moved and, sneer as they might, she refused to give it up, even threatening to leave her husband rather than the machine. The money Aunt Allie earned by taking in sewing supported the whole Earp tribe much of the time, and not their gambling "br their holdups...
...government cannot say, 'This is being caused by a defense apparatus or a secret weapon. For your own safety, will you please put up with it?'" Instead, he complained, "There have been evasions, lyings, even a sort of shrugging of shoulders and a sneer which has made us all the more determined to find out what it is and damned well put a stop to it." Chorused his hum-struck wife, Hilda: "It can't be Martians, can it? I don't believe it is outer space at all. I believe...
...thrown out when he pinked his mistress' fiancé in a revolver duel. A bounder, but not yet a villain, Sanders returned to London and developed a low opinion of singers by briefly becoming one (bass-baritone). The move to cinema came naturally, and the author's sneer became permanently and profitably fixed...