Word: snort
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...graduates may snort at this addition to Harvard Square diversions, and point out that the subway and Boston were plenty good enough for them, but it can be urged in defense that their undergraduate lives were not spent in a constant retreat from automobiles. They needed no relaxation. One feels, especially after the daily, narrow escape, that Harvard Square seems to be getting rather out of bend anyway...
...imagine Horace Greeley's snort or Charles Dana's explosion had the printer's devil come to their elbow suggesting that there was too much copy to fill their papers, that their editorials had best be cast out. They would have shouted: "Throw away the rest and save the editorials!" They were journalists conducting great journals. Today, we have newspapers run by newspapermen...
Dazed, he looks for an old landmark. What? No "Pill Box"? Only a traffic policeman marks the spot. With filmed eye and tottering limb, he makes for him. But rashly, for the released traffic leaps forth. Down goes the stranger. The officer's arms gyrate madly. A snort of disgust--"Top slow...
...Dolphin wholes, the sea cows snort...
...first snort came from Senator "Jim" Reed of Missouri. He proposed that the President's letter be expunged from the Senate record, because the Senate should have scorned to receive such a document. "It is an insult," cried...