Word: snickeringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...puppet-characters are pulled by strings of desire. Tycoon Heavenstreet wants to protect beautiful Miss Grogarty; Hairdresser Connor wants to possess romantic Mr. Gambrino. With the help of Spring, a merry-go-round and Robert Nathan, the fable ends fabulously well, not with a bang but with a snicker...
...Louisiana's loud little Governor and Senator-elect Huey Parham Long, who charged Mr. Garsaud was unfit for the job because of business obligations to New Orleans Public Service, an Electric Bond & Share subsidiary. Republican Claude Draper, for twelve years a Wyoming Public Utilities Commissioner, made the Senate Committee snicker when he justified a 10¢ per kilowatt hour rate at Casper on the ground that the public was willing to pay for "adequate service...
...incongruous or pompous things, this young man will never lack for oysters, for the world is his." The Arno type of humorous drawing is hard to define, easy to recognize. The pictures that make you laugh are ludicrous, often slightly mad but always obvious; the pictures that make you snicker are allusive, satirical, not always to be taken in at a glance, usually are capable of at least a double meaning. About half these pictures should make you laugh ; you may snicker at the rest. Whichever you do, you will admit that Peter Arno knows his stuff and knows...
...band, returning to its post, halts, "Sounds Off" again, and, because this is Sunday, breaks into "Nearer My God to Thee" so that all and sundry may realize this is the Sabbath. The buglers sound "Retreat" and the sunset gun barks. Kaydets snicker as the cits jump at the report. The battalion come to attention and then to "Present Arms" as the National Anthem is played. Then the adjutant publishes the orders, officers and guidons go front and center and the Corps passes in review...