Word: snickers
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...acts of Albanians need no longer conform to the precepts of the True Prophet. Finally a salutary Swiss provision against carrying concealed weapons will completely alter, if it can be enforced, one of the most cherished customs of Albanians, who have always gone about with loaded pistols and sharp snicker-snees in their dirty blouses...
Eighteen hundred feet up the Blue Ridge, hard by Snicker's Gap, where Turner Ashby's grey cavalry thundered through to join Jackson in the Valley, stands a fine brick building faced with ten cinctured columns. About are smaller structures, a laboratory, stable, power plant. Once it was an important U. S. weather observatory; but for 15 years it has stood empty in the mountain wind...
...Henry Ameroy Hotvedt (pronounced Hotwet) of Weehawken, N. J., said, "People snicker at the mention of my name," when he last week petitioned a law court to change his name to Hartwell...
...append to his name, Francis Josiah Hudleston, the enigmatic initials O. B. E., C. B. E.; these signify that he is an officer, a commander of the Order of the British Empire. He is also librarian of the British War Office. His first book Warriors in Undress was a snicker at the absurdities of war. Author Hudleston is not without literary connections; Sylvia Townsend Warner (author of Lolly Willowes, Mr. Fortune's Maggot) is his niece; Arthur Machen is his brother...
...built. Does inviolate tradition condone all? Does an air of the sacrosanct vindicate every blemish on the tabernacle? The reply is obviously one which must bow to the canons of good taste. Until the daily vaudeville ceases the public will be expected to stop, to stare, perhaps to snicker in adolescent fashion. But the public stops not to be entertained--these diversions have no relation to the word--but rather in amazement. In the haunts of the conventional, is to be found--the type of beguilement offered...