Word: snickered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...candles in the smoke-blanketed carbon black area of the Louisiana gas field. And the "wet" gas furnishes carload after carload of gasoline before it is used in the burning houses. To me it is an interesting industry. I was rather offended when you dismissed it with a snicker-"shoe-polish." You might almost as well call the packing industry the "pigsfeet people"-the farmers of the world "manure spreaders." This is a carping letter, although I did not intend it so. Pride injured by an error of omission prompted it. Perhaps sometime in the near future you will have...
Last Sunday the people of Manhattan were privileged to welcome a new newspaper-the New York Sunday Leader, price 5c. Those who wondered what the publishers (who also issue a theatrical snicker sheet called Zit's Weekly) intended to do with the paper, and whether they had not been slightly temerarious in their choice of a title, were informed by an editorial that "the Leader's aim is to print all news fearlessly, fairly and without malice." Underneath was a squib censoring Edward W. Browning, "Cinderella man," for "taking little girls in their teens to night clubs." Another...
...edgell blade went snicker-snack...
...Belleair Heights. They read with respect the names of Mrs. Dorothy Cambell Hurd of Philadelphia, national champion; Miss Glenna Collett of Providence, Miss Francis Hadfield of Milwaukee, Miss Dorothy Klotz of Chicago, Mrs G. H. Stetson of Philadelphia. Suddenly, one of their number pointed to a name, emitted a snicker. Others, following his shaking finger, perceived the joke, began to titter, to cackle. Soon a hysteria of amusement possessed the group; they laid hands upon one another, crowing; they pressed their sides, their eyes watered freely, they stamped upon the ground; some, more abandoned, slipped limply down and rolled, helpless...
...vorpal blade went snicker-snack! The beast was dead, and with his head...