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...Motion Picture Herald. Manager Watson runs El Paso's Mission Theater. "From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three customers by sudden death. The Mission, Mr. Watson observes, "is not a class movie...
...News, with a knowing eye on its "common man" circulation (2,050,000 daily, 3,950,000 Sunday), also recalled with a sneer and a gloat the President's respectability: "Respectable, but not popular. [It] is the smallest, as to circulation, of the four New York City morning newspapers. . . . Its daily circulation [is] 293,304; its Sunday circulation 546,705. The paper is the mouthpiece of the New York-and-vicinity genteel moneyed crowd -the select coterie which feels that things British are superior to things American. . . . How did the Herald Tribune get to be an Anglomaniac newspaper...
...Shame on you to flaunt a cockroach before a Navy couple who dream of home in New Jersey, and cleanliness. Don't you know the Southern variety would sneer at your tiny Powers model...
...Wendell Willkie tarred with the Democratic brush? Captain Joseph Patterson's New York Daily News, bitter Willkie foe, relentlessly tells its 2,000,000 daily readers that Willkie was once a "Tammany Democrat." Willkie opponents within the G.O.P. sneer at his One-Worldliness as an imitation of Henry Wallace. Many a plain G.O.P. voter wonders from time to time...
Next, go to your radio set. Approach the object with all the pent up sneer you can muster. (This last direction is straight from Frend.) Then, with rapidly successive strokes, pluck each shiny tube from its smug receptacle, clutch gleefully in both hands, and with a heinous whoop," or whatever other sound may best express your innermost emotions, smash one at a time against the book-piled desk at which you've sat so many hot nights. After this act of delicious reprisal, grab the nearest blunt weapon, and bludgeon to permanent silence the obstinate object of your electronic muddle...