Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gripped him. The present undergraduate scorns rallies and jingoistic gatherings; he is apathetic toward any urging to one thing or another. The graduate is exhorted to come to this and that gathering. By means of posters, pamphlets, and journals, of the sort which would make the man in college sneer, graduate gatherings are called into being. Also, many a father shows more interest in the football team than does his son who is in college...
...Hall of Columns" stood last week like a double row of sentinels guarding the Red Court. The vast oblong hall was draped and festooned in Red. At a Red desk on the right of the Supreme Court Bench sat Nikolai Vassilievitch Krylenko. dreaded prosecutor, famed for his sneer. He seemed a bit plumper but no less tense and tigerish than at the famed Schakhta Trial two years ago when he sent five counter-revolutionaries to Death (TIME. July...
...word Lord Peel opposed granting Dominion Status to India either now or at any specified future time, drew exclamations of fury by his cool sneer and pun that parliamentary institutions in India "are not growth but graft...
...literary men since Shakespeare have dared to dislike dogs. Gentle Will never mentioned them without a sneer, but Thomas Mann has a dog of his own, likes him so much he has written a book about...
...turned reactionary in the War- time fever, and The New Republic lost 40% of its 48,000 circulation. After the War it faced a nation whose tempo had suddenly, nervously quickened, whose major thought tendencies, expressed in journalism, philosophy and literature, were toward the satire, horselaugh and Menckenian sneer, hardly sympathetic to the earnest, didactic, creative attitude of The New Republic. Dismayed by the scene around him, Editor Croly's faiths subtly changed; his belief in progressive movements weakened, he began to feel that in individual development lay the real future of Liberalism. With the collapse of the LaFollette...