Word: snidely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flacks as a "millionaire" or even "rich" (nonetheless, he is wealthy). Since Jane is off Broadway, the playhouse's 175 seats were his for only $300. One extra: Perky, whose father was Princeton 1881, slipped Actor Monroe Arnold a ten-spot to change the target of a snide remark from Old Nassau to Yale...
Overnight, on cue, critics in the Moscow press toned down their hitherto snide comments about the American exhibition, Pravda trotted out improbable quotes by metal workers and locksmiths applauding Eisenhower's invitation, and Americans in Moscow began getting telephone calls and visits from former Russian friends who had been silent for years...
Racing on the Thames River, four Crimson yachtsmen will compete in another regatta tomorrow at Coast Guard. Co-skippers Dave Gill and Larry Snide-man will race against Boston University, Coast Guard, Holy Cross, MIT, Providence and Wesleyan...
Scholastically, she was at the top of her class. A tremendous organizer, Michiko was elected president of the student governing committee and began to be called sotsu-no-nai, which roughly means "perfect," but also has a snide connotation of being a little too perfect, too ladylike, too obedient to the rules. A professor once said with a touch of asperity: "Michiko-san, your only defect is that you have none." She appeared taken aback by the remark...
...warmly of "ebullient" Nelson Rockefeller, pointedly inquired: "Are you sure that Averell Harriman is really the most independent, liberal gubernatorial candidate?" Then on the front page of the final edition, on the night before election, Post readers got a furious Schiff assault on Harriman: "Governor Harriman's recent snide insinuation that Nelson Rockefeller is pro-Arab and anti-Israel should not be condoned by any fair-minded person . . . If you agree with me, do not vote for Averell Harriman tomorrow...