Word: snideness
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...News thought there was something fishy about the preoccupation of two non-military Cabinet members with censorship problems. For fellow newsmen it had a warning: "Brace Yourselves, Gents . . . Evidently honest criticism is getting under Harry's hide . . . Better close ranks right now, and get set for the next snide Administration attack on the freedom of the press...
During the first years, however, Munch's critical treatment probably won't be too gentle. Most Boston critics are just as provincial as Boston society. For 25 years they have been accustomed to one way of doing things, and the shift will be a tough one. Already, snide little references have appeared in Boston papers. Rudolph Elie of the Herald, for instance, fears that absolute disaster will result if Munch should dare to reseat the Orchestra...
...least disappointing to see the CRIMSON abandon its usual refreshing objectivity and print an item both unnecessary biased and viciously inaccurate. The snide treatment of the remarks of professors Aiken and Marne in the report of last night's peace Conference was an utterly uncalled-for distortion of both the form and the sense of those remarks. The complete, and apparently deliberate misconstruction of Prof. Fletcher's comments bore no vestige of either accuracy or integrity...
...characteristic garrulity. Yet even in last week's not very helpful production, You Never Can Tell is seldom tiresome for long, and is often quite diverting. It shimmers, too, with good nature. Like his contemporary Wilde, and like virtually no one since, Shaw can be sharp without being snide, mischievous without being nasty. Quite soundly Stage Annalist Allardyce Nicoll once dubbed Shaw's type of comedy "purposeful...
...kept on up the street. He remembered when the long, heavy envelope had arrived. He'd looked at it suspiciously, noticing the return address. Dimly, in the background, he'd heard martial music playing as he extracted, in order, a small card, a large, many-itemed form, and a snide little scrap of yellow paper. It was to this last that he'd addressed wary attention; it was closely printed with a series of crisp pronunciamentos, studded with "you will," "do not fail," and "all men . . ." Its final edict was simple: Vag was to be present at a certain place...