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...Factor was in Court to hear the royal warrant read, to sneer at 250 pages of depositions made by swindled Britons at Guildhall and forwarded from London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Crown v. Barber | 6/8/1931 | See Source »

...know that many Englishmen sneer at the North American idea of publicity and describe their methods of boosting as vulgar. . . . I am sorry to say that we are sadly behind the times in the field of advertising...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Report by H. R. H. | 6/1/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HARVARD ALUMNUS | 5/14/1931 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Supreme Propaganda | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Indian Conference: Act II | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

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