Word: snootful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There'll Be No Changes Made. Poor Frances Trollope took a terrible beating from this nation of officers and gentlemen. Chomping their chaw-packed jaws and deluging her skirts with a running fire of mis-spits, they haw-hawed at the Royal Navy, punched King George in the snoot and tossed Britain (as Cincinnati tossed its garbage) out into the street. When Mrs. Trollope gently hinted at the "total and universal want of manners, both in males and females," she was either assured that the rudeness in question was a local "peculiarity" ("You know so little of America...
...call a man a screwball. Cried the News: "Hereafter, if a rude neighbor or stranger gives you a dirty look, and declares his belief that you resemble a dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...
...pure energy, though more restrained than in The Three Caballeros, still seem touched with homicidal mania. Nearly every attempt at cuteness, sweetness, tenderness, sublimity, results in one or another kind of painful simper. There is a frequent, unscrupulous alternation between the dreamy shimmer and the bang on the snoot...
Evita herself will take home no papal decoration. Peronistas had hoped she might be given a papal title that would enable Argentina's First Lady, born on the wrong side of the tracks, to out-snoot Buenos Aires' stuffy aristocracy...
Chicago expected better things of its mayoralty campaigns. In times past there had been Big Bill Thompson, protecting them from the British Empire and threatening to punch King George in the snoot. Almost every election spring, charges of whopping graft and corruption hurtled through the air above the neglected streets and the uncollected garbage. This year things were different. Said one oldtimer: "Campaign, hell! This is a pillow fight...