Word: snickered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deep Sea Chanteys and Sod Buster Ballads (Almanac Singers; two General albums). In the former, the vagrant, gusty Almanackers toss off Blow the Man Down, Blow Ye Winds High-O, etc. The other set is a random survey of such Americana as Ground Hog ("Up comes Sal with a snicker and a grin, Ground Hog grease all over her chin...
...show. Last week, in a vast, high-ceilinged courtroom in Brooklyn, the scene was thrown on the screen for the jury. Duquesne was there, in the prisoners' dock; he looked at himself on the screen with interest. His gestures, especially the one with the imaginary rifle, brought a snicker from the audience. The other 15 defendants (17 of the 33 had pleaded guilty) had no such stellar roles as the trial rolled on and the case, unlike the movie, slowly proceeded. The U.S. had not yet learned from the trial how effective Nazi espionage in the U.S. might...
...stop at the point where reformers would like to freeze them. And he thoroughly understood revolutionary politics. "To dare!" he said, "is all the politics of the Revolution." His attitude toward a republic was genuinely Naziistic. Madame Roland describes how he once gnawed his nails and asked with a snicker: "What is a republic?" "Who would," he asked like an echo of Hitler, "exchange the sublime destinies of the people of France for the constitution of the United States...
...never had an honor graduate separated from West Point, Shattuck drills its boys as smartly in the classroom as on the parade ground. Shattuck boys call themselves Shads, their food "garbage," the girls of nearby St. Mary's "saints," the demerits they get (for anything from an unmilitary snicker to an unmade bed) "soaks." Proudest Shads are those who make the Crack Squad of 16 boys, which drills in special uniforms, with the last remaining 1870 Army rifles, and is rated by Army men one of the best pre cision teams...