Word: sneeringly
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...long been known that the brand "Harvard man" was likely to occasion a sneer in various vague and distant quarters, something like "Princeton man," but not many have known that it was this bad. The local boys have tried hard enough to please. They have even done their bit of Hollywood, and a small group of them recently served as the main attraction at a meeting of the Jordan Marsh Chapter of the Ladies' Home Journal Sub-Deb Club. Nevertheless the frightful stories of persecutions continue to come and grow. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children should...
Only one Andrews sister (LaVerne) reads music. The girls work up a number with Arranger Vic Schoen, in rehearsals in which he holds his nose and they sneer. Once they took singing lessons, but apoplectic Manager Levy stopped that, pronto, for fear they would be ruined. The sisters have also appeared in four movies, one of which, Argentina Nights, so infuriated Argentine audiences that it had to be withdrawn. The Harvard Lampoon voted this performance the "most frightening" of the year...
Frustrated by their inability for the first time in seven years to sneer at Harvard's inferior football teams, Dartmouth College has, unbelievably enough, deserted the physical field and turned to the intellectual type of criticism for the relief of its inferiority complex. A certain Hanoverian professor named Burns enlivened our day yesterday with his claims that Harvard is provincial; that Harvard's history staff is composed of a tight little Cambridge-Cape Cod set of Anglophiles; and that their influence is responsible for the woeful lack of knowledge of the American people at large about Mexico, Canada, and Russia...
...corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics). By 1938, he had swung over to the opposition camp of Wang Ching-wei. By last week, though still working...
...stated that in Montreal I had referred to the child refugees from England as "riffraff." You also made some sarcastic remarks about my giving some of my so-called "blue blood" to the British Red Cross, but that latter statement is unimportant and you have every right to sneer at me if you so wish to do for giving what was so very much demanded in New York through the radio. But I must ask you to . . . retract the statement that I said or even went anywhere near saying that the English little refugees were "riffraff." . . . I have devoted...