Word: snootful
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...have received so many gifts," said he, "I may have to open an Iowa room when I get back to Lambeth Palace in London." Runcie, 59, certainly had his hands full with the 40-lb. Berkshire maiden who seemed intent on hogging the spotlight. The gift was nothing to snoot at - as a gentleman farmer back home, Runcie oversees 60 prize Berkshires of his own. The latest addition to the Archbishop's porcine parish listened beatifically as Runcie gushed, "I love my pigs." She perked a wary swine's ear, however, when the Archbishop added...
...week, from 10 in the morning to 1 in the afternoon, and from 6 to 7 in the evening, Delderfield produced an imposing series of doorstoppers, bearing such titles as God Is an Englishman and To Serve Them All My Days. Then in 1969, as if cocking a snoot at the world of Establishment and tradition, he interrupted himself to write Charlie, Come Home, a perky, funny, rather un-Delderfield sort of novel...
...rumors of girl chasing that disturb his fellow Democrats. About his general restlessness, one party elder muses: "There's something for psychiatry here." Another Democrat feels that Ted is "trouble-prone." Says a longtime Senate comrade: "He's got a fine future if he can keep his snoot clean...
...Never Give Me Your Money). In The End, a final note of acceptance of life's burdens is sealed with an affirmation: "The love you take is equal to the love you make." To avoid too much of an amen quality, the side concludes with a brief snoot-cocking ditty by Paul McCartney...
...clear brown eyes stay cool, and the audience roars its welcome; they can hardly wait for Hope to sock it to them. And so he does. Five, six gags a minute. Pertinent, impertinent, leering, perishing. And sometimes plopping, but only for an instant. When he misses, the famous scooped snoot shoots defiantly skyward, the prognathous jaw drops in mock anguish, or he goes into a stop-action freeze. Sometimes he just repeats the line until the audience gets it. They don't have to laugh of course -but if they don't, it's almost treason...