Word: snickered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...built. Does inviolate tradition condone all? Does an air of the sacrosanct vindicate every blemish on the tabernacle? The reply is obviously one which must bow to the canons of good taste. Until the daily vaudeville ceases the public will be expected to stop, to stare, perhaps to snicker in adolescent fashion. But the public stops not to be entertained--these diversions have no relation to the word--but rather in amazement. In the haunts of the conventional, is to be found--the type of beguilement offered...
...precise magnificence in its well-brushed and steel-grey beard. It reminded them of a someone they knew, some face they had often seen before. When they perused the caption, Charles Evans Hughes' prize-winning Schnauzer, with Miss Christine Charles at the Southampton Dog Show, they began to snicker. While it was possible (if unlikely) that famed Charles Evans Hughes had turned dog fancier, it was an inconceivable as well as an impudent coincidence that the dog 'should bear so exact a facial resemblance to his master. Yet there it was, the calm, thoughtful visage, the long, sagacious...
Julie. "Thees Pierre, 'e iz one dam fine bootlaig, mais nevaire, nevaire will I make ze marriage wiz him" is the type of dialogue that drove many of the audience home at the end of Act II. Some remained to snicker at tense moments. The plot involves a drunken Canuck mother who sells her daughter, Julie, to a bootlegger for two cases of Scotch. There is also the stalwart Yankee youth who saves the girl over the disapproval of his tight little mother, and a bady who did not belong to Julie after...
...some of the Kahns were almost as old as he, 47; and, besides, no one had ever really loved him, for all his fat. The familial relationship was purely commercial, his particular job being to sit with his front spread over his lap as bumpkins paused to wonder and snicker. Once he noted a youngish couple squeeze an impertinent witticism through their clasped fingers. He was sad for days...
Most humanitarians have a flair for pioneering. Conductor Damrosch brought Wagner into U. S. favor at a time when the fashion was to snicker at the German. He, first, played the greatest Symphony since Beethoven, the Tschaikowsky "Pathetique." He sponsored...