Word: snickeringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter cliques of the industry, one other name emerges, that of Chicago's Mars, Inc. The late Frank Clarence Mars cornered 20% of the candy bar business with his three leaders, Milky Way, Snicker and Honey Almond. If a worker in his well-scrubbed plant disobeyed his rule against jewelry and lost a ring or wristwatch on the job, he threw out the entire mix on which she had been working. The competition among the candy bar specialists is as quick-burning as carbohydrates. Williamson Candy's Oh Henry! (a core of fudge covered with soft caramel, rolled...
...should not Republicans be included? The cloak rooms buzzed. Someone had a bright idea: Why not invite the whole of Congress? Why not march down with a band? No one could say nay to so unprecedented a patriotic gesture, but a number of Congressmen-mostly Republicans- began to snicker at its unprecedented incongruity: to welcome back the President with open arms after Congress had, in his absence, flouted his wishes by overriding his pension veto, by taxing Philippine coconut oil, by threatening to remonetize silver (see p. 14), by extracting teeth from the Stock Exchange bill. When Franklin Roosevelt-after...
...River" with Jerome Kern. Through it all little Irving Berlin was flying all over his keyboard with the most elaborate gestures. But people sitting near him could see that he was playing in cinema fashion, not touching the keys. When his turn came to solo, his colleagues started to snicker. Red as an apple he went to the front, started to play "Alexander's Ragtime Band" like a ten-year-old child. The Alley, of course, has known all along that the composer of a thousand hits could not play the piano, sharp is the only...
...Well, hardly ever." In a year's time, more than a hundred Captain Corcorans were cavorting nightly on as many stages in America alone, and "that infernal nonsense Pinafore" was running in everyone's head. No clergymen dared say "never" of a Sunday morning, for fear of a snicker from the pews; and when a minister intoned "For He Himself hath said it," some rogue would be sure to whisper "and it's greatly to his credit that He is an Englishman." "Pinafore" came like a spanking breeze to the doldrums of the Victorian stage...
...them up in Bob Jones College, Florida, the last stronghold of fundamentalism and all its marks. His ringing tones have placed him on the side of the angels but I am sure that even the seraphim as well as parsons-in-embryo should be permitted an occasional snicker at the laughability of institutions and of youth. (Name withheld by request...