Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once upon a time an ageing, king with a Satanic sneer and a great peruke lived in a Baroque palace. From this palace he made occasional raids, foraging among his neighbors for the means to gratify his Teutonic tastes. For these raids he gathered from Europe the bravest and strongest soldiers that money could buy, them he drilled and disciplined as soldiers had never been disciplined before. He won battles, and became the hero of his countrymen. But battles palled, he was not amused. So he built Sanssouci, which in its Baroque lushness reflected his Northern, Germanic, emotional temperament...
...over the hard cobblestones and sharp rocks of the highway towards a suburb of Paris. Thin rags hung about them for clothes, their shoes showed great holes, and the filth of a century clung to them like a disease. On every animal face there was a snarl and a sneer that represented the discontent of a thousand others, and the lines and hollows that only starvation can leave distorted their features. They hardly knew where they were going, yet they dreamt that each painful step they took would bring them nearer to food, to the Baker and the Baker...
...perhaps within a few months of political ruin ... is sticking at nothing to restore his fortunes." Japanese editors also struck the sour note that the President's proposals were mere electioneering. Icy and astute, Sir John Simon steered the British Press away from this cheap and ineffective sneer by summoning to his hotel all the British correspondents in Geneva. "I implore you," he said, "to give no emphasis to the possible bearing of Mr. Hoover's proposals on the coming presidential election...
...Capitalistic overlord by five young Russian engineers. With this simple salvation of the proletariat for a theme, the plot manages to create a blood-and-thunder milieu, filled with hurricanes, dynamiting, death, and a happy ending. The Turkmen are virtual slaves of the cruel heavy, a Bey with a sneer and black waxed mustachios; the Musselmen laboriously draw water from deep wells for the garden of fig-trees and lettuce which laps Aman the Bey and his harem in luxury. But John Reed Turkman writes to the Reds, who come five strong on a thundering locomotive to water the desert...
...changed and changing attitudes toward Prohibition I cannot help thinking about the word 'Wet,' and how different is its meaning today from what it was intended when first the term was hurled at the opponents of the 18th Amendment. It was intended to be an insult, a sneer, or at best a flippancy. It was intended to indicate a person of uncontrolled appetite, a poor creature who placed thirst ahead of responsibility to his neighbor...