Search Details

Word: sneer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Sever plays the part of Mr. Puff, a playwright; Palmer Baker '39 and Vernon Hodges '34 are cast as Mr. Sneer and Mr. Dangle, critics who accompany Puff to the dress rehearsal of his Elizabethan verse tragedy called "The Spanish Armada." Miss Spencer is Tilburina, the English heroine of the play under rehearsal, and John Barnard '39 is her faithful Spanish lover, Don Whiskerandes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THESPIANS WILL GIVE "CRITIC" BY SHERIDAN | 12/8/1938 | See Source »

...Many used to sneer that the adopted-daughter system was Atatürk's method of keeping a harem after he had abolished outright polygamy. Atatürk's daughters, however, were invariably plain girls. The Ghazi, not particular in his choice of women, preferred painted cheeks and lips. By giving talented young women the protection of his name he could set them to work safely on jobs never before attempted by a Turkish woman and thus symbolize women's new freedom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Martinet | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...lower New York Bay for the first session of the new Merchant Marine Training School. Superintendent was smiling Lieut. Commander George Evans McCabe of the U. S. Coast Guard, an energetic expert in seacraft who will rate a salute from every man in the school (". . . and not with a sneer on his face, either"). Teachers will be six commissioned officers and 30 petty officers from the Coast Guard cutter service. For training ships the men will have two famous windjammers-the square-rigged Tusitala, once the hobby of retired Steelman James A. Farrell, and the Joseph Conrad, in which Author...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Seamen's Seminar | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...overlooked by any Museum, it should not be taken for granted that man-eating sharks can thus lightly be ignored in favor of lesser finny denizens, or molluscs and foraminifera. The Museum has evidently seen the light, but not enough of it. Man-eaters are inclined to sneer at trawls and nets. Furthermore, they are likely to burst out in new viciousness at being over-long neglected. Various persons will then have to pay tribute with their arms and legs for shark spite...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAN EATING SHARK | 12/2/1937 | See Source »

...load of examinations (mind you, a threesome in a row), walked into a travel agency in search of stimulation from the bright-colored posters and handbooks. After rummaging through the pamphlets on the main counter, during which period of ecstasy an impudent clerk glanced down with a sneer, doubting without speaking the Vagabond's ability to travel anywhere, his hands picked up a pink sheet. O, Harvard what a sight for sore eyes! Shore Excursion of the S. S. Tameriane To Boston and Harvard, Monday. August 2nd By Arrangement with the Weyman Ritcomb...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/16/1937 | See Source »

Previous | 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 100 | 101 | 102 | 103 | 104 | 105 | 106 | 107 | 108 | 109 | 110 | 111 | 112 | 113 | 114 | 115 | Next