Word: sneering
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...helplessly watched Kansas' Alf Landon become the G. O. P. choice; loyally he bought tons of sun flower badges, tons of propaganda; bitterly he heard gentle Mr. Landon soft-pedal attacks on the New Deal. Today mention of Alf Landon is likely to make Mr. Pew sneer: "Is he a Republican...
Hitler sneaked into Berlin's Sportspalast to make a speech before a selected Nazi audience-his first since the November Munich bombing. The Führer was tough, but repetitious. About all he did was to sneer at Bible-toting "old Chamberlain" and bitterly assail "M. Daladier." "They wanted war; they shall have war!" shouted the Führer. thus officially ending the distinction between Germany's hostility to Great Britain and her sympathy for Britain's "tool," France...
...there are a few traditional bits of advice worth passing on, if only for the sake of the record. Avoid blind dates at Radcliffe and that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...
...among those elevated to a knighthood on King George's birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
...appeal would be, how serious or how ephemeral the challenge to Harvard traditions, how practicable the affair from a mechanical point of view -- these are questions which the dance committees must decide. "De gustibus non disputandum est," and it may well be that an institution long discussed with a sneer can serve a useful and desirable purpose...