Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will Connolly writes a would-be-snide sports column for the San Francisco "Chronicle." If he limited his sniping to the West, Connolly would be on safe ground. But sometimes he turns his inane prose against something east of Nevada; and then Mr. Connolly slips badly. You must have facts to be effectively cynical a requirement Connolly regrettably neglects...
Without a doubt, the best lines in the current issue were written by no 'Poonster. They are the reaction of people outside the Cambridge community to former Lampoons. These letters run from a Tufts man's snide blast at Harvard in general to the pointed pouts of the Lana Turner fan club, angered by the Lampoon's attitude toward their heroine. "...Don't you wish your crummy students could see our Lana in person...
...said that the outcome was really a surprise to those who knew Newbold Morris and the chiefs of the Administration. But it was a spectacle, part political farce and part national humiliation, that Washington would remember. Morris launched his inquiry in his own inimitable style. He made snide remarks in public against such pets of Harry Truman as Major General Harry Vaughan. He talked loftily of starting his house-cleaning in the Department of Justice, of which he was technically a member. At the congressional hearings, he wrathfully resented personal questions seeking to clarify the part he had played...
...recent issue of the Wellesley News Miss Geller described what she and her friends consider the "typical" Harvard man. Coughlin and Holbrook, neither of whom is typical of a Harvard man, will attempt to rebut the Wellesly opinion, and may be given an opportunity for a snide remark or two about the "typical" Wellesley girl...
Harvard's rise to national grid fame was not so sudden as Centre and the decline from the ranks of the mighty has been more gradual. Despite what some of the nation's more snide press scribes may write, the Crimson also has not sunken to the obscurity of Centre College. Eastern football in general has skidded into amateurim and the Crimson has gone along with the trend--though most Harvard fans might wish that the Crimson were not holding up the bottom of the de-emphasized league...