Word: snideness
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...Good. At a National Press Club luncheon, Preminger got a standing ovation usually reserved for potentates from lands other than Hollywood, and he took it in his usual snide. The audience called on Actor Laughton to display his Southern drawl, newly acquired after a careful study of the delivery of Mississippi's real-life Senator John Stennis. Preminger vetoed it. "Meester Laughton," said he, "vill not do it because I vill not allow it." He also ignored the suggestion that the theme of Advise and Consent might evoke a questionable image of the U.S. abroad. He has prudently eliminated...
...sneer at us because we have passed legislation forbidding families with children to live in single-room apartments. We can only conclude, from your snide language, that you think families should be permitted to live in such conditions...
Your article on Mrs. Kennedy represents a shocking display of bad taste. Beneath the sugared veneer there is a coarseness and vulgarity made up of gossipy half-truths, snatches of conversation printed out of context and snide insinuations which are evil and destructive in nature. The First Lady of the land deserves better treatment than this...
...name talent has so far rubbed together in the dry Reno air without producing any rope burns. Known to be just as explosive as Marilyn, Montgomery Clift was variously happy, snide, exploding with nervous laughter, once fell to the ground and rolled with joy on seeing some old friends. Drinking whisky and Seven-Up with assorted cowboys, making an elaborate do about picking up their speech and mannerisms, Clift spent his week looking forward to a chartered flight to Los Angeles, where he would see his favorite singer, Ella Fitzgerald; the producer called it "Monty's little treat...
...description of their primitive campsite: "Kitchen matches. Shells from fresh eggs. Empty cans which once contained spaghetti. Watermelon rinds. July issue of the Reader's Digest. So much toilet tissue that some of it had been used to start a fire." The Examiner cautiously refrained from drawing any snide conclusions. But the evening News-Call Bulletin, jointly owned by Hearst and Scripps-Howard, was less kind: "The Examiner published voluminous type and pictures to imply that Boyd was no hero but possibly-just possibly-a hoaxer...