Word: sneer
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...refer to the undersigned or any other labor executive as a union boss," wrote Union Boss Lewis, "is a sneer. In logic, it would be equally sound to refer to a public official as the boss of the citizens ... To refer to the public trustee of the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund [onetime Coal Mine Operator Josephine Roche], of eminent record, as a stooge of the undersigned is a contemptible insult, derogatory to the writer of your editorial. It exemplifies the innate philosophy of the Bourbon mind and the effeminate snobbishness of inbred aristocracy...
...more vociferous subway alumnus who might ordinarily be counted on to help fill the Stadium just aren't interested in intersectional contests like today's game. They want to see the varsity play some local school, such as Boston University or Boston College. Two months ago only a derisive sneer and a clenched fist would have met that suggestion, for both had been playing big name football teams. But while B.U., now the owner of Braves Field, seems apparently headed for stronger opponents and bigger gates, B.C. has just announced a policy of de-emphasis...
...every role she plays, and from it moves out into comedy or tragedy with equal ease and grace. As wife No. 2, Yvonne de Carlo does the job of her life. For the first time a director (Anthony Kimmins) has understood that her exuberant wiggles, suggestive ogles and painted sneer of sexual overconfidence need only the least exaggeration to change a glamour girl into a raucously earthy figure...
...Porter Hall, as one of the witnesses (an undertaker on a spree), firmly supports many a shaky scene with his main comic device: an almost completely absent chin. Edward G. Robinson is as monotonous and entertaining as ever. An actor who has developed well-nigh infinite modulations of the sneer, Robinson, after 30 years of practice, has at last produced his masterpiece. In Vice Squad, he displays a sneer so spectacular that he can almost be said to smile...
...Even when the first Russians rolled into sight in armored cars and open infantry trucks to back up the nervous and confused People's Police (Volkspolizei or Vopos), the marchers grinned and whistled and jeered. An East German perched shakily on an idle cement mixer pointed with a sneer at a tall Vopo. "Hello, long one," he cried. "Your pants are open...