Word: snickering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Snickers & Shudders. Today Osborn lives on a Connecticut farm, relaxed and happily at peace with the world until he sits down to draw. Then he spears humanity's Dilberts with the savage drawings that have appeared in such magazines as LIFE, FORTUNE, Look and Holiday. "This," he scrawls in the preface to Low & Inside, "is about the steady plight of man; the anarchy of his laughter and the terrifying lawfulness of his tragedies." Whether readers should snicker or shudder at his insane world, even Osborn doesn't know. "Humor is a funny business," says...
...Hare McCormick, "may have done more to undermine Russian peace propaganda than a whole battery of counterpropaganda . . . For nothing he said or will say to the assembled nations is so revealing and reverberating as that laugh. It goes echoing through the corridors of the U.N. . . . like the snicker of an evil spirit. Perhaps it will echo down the corridors of time. Lesser things than a laugh at the hopes and fears of humanity have brought down empires and dethroned tyrants...
...does a hearse horse snicker Hauling a lawyer away...
...movie in that it is quite different from the ordinary motion picture in its weirdness, but it does not capitalize on this to create any kind of tense atmosphere. When one of the pioneers drifts off into the stratosphere while clambering around outside the rocket, the tendency is to snicker rather than become alarmed over the fact that he may not come back, because you are quite sure that he will. The remarkable rates of speed which George Pal's vehicle attains do not keep "Destination Moon" from begin a pedestrian movie...
...story told by Biographer Derek Hudson is a tragic one. Tupper had his success young. In the '60s the public outgrew him, and he became a figure of fun. As people began to snicker, other disasters struck him too. He lost his savings in speculations. His publishers went bankrupt and failed to pay him. His wife became an alcoholic and was out of her head for a time. His eldest son ran hugely into debt, was kicked out of the army, and almost broke Tupper's heart when he was found suffering from delirium tremens in a prostitute...