Word: snort
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year by illustrating an American homily of good-humored resignation: "Grin and Bear It." In his satirical, topical "Grin and Bear It" cartoon, which runs in more than 270 U.S. dailies. Cartoonist "Lichty" has created such harried, irascible characters as potbellied, spindle-legged Bascomb Belchmore. Senator Snort, Mr. Snodgrass, and a diabolical moppet named Otis. They are inevitably trapped in ridiculous situations of their own making. In one cartoon Senator Snort, .dressed in flowered waistcoat and bat-winged collar, tells a group of reporters: "I welcome any inquiry into my program for a foreign policy, gentlemen ... I have often wondered...
With a cultured snort at reports that he would soon perform in a Las Vegas pleasure dome for $35,000 a week, British Playwright Noel Coward, in the U.S. ostensibly to browse around Broadway, showed a bittersweet regard for the prospect of such easy money: "I keep on getting offers, and what I am offered is often trebled by the press, which gives me a lovely false feeling of prosperity." But Las Vegas nonetheless holds a certain attraction for Coward, who has long lived opulently by his wits: "They do pay the most extraordinary kind of money...
...Private Snort. The caucus room coverage was smoothly professional. Under pool arrangements, it was ABC's turn to supply equipment and technicians. In a steaming mobile unit parked in the Senate building courtyard, Ed Scherer, a 25-year-old TV director for Baltimore's WMAR-TV, selected the best shots to be fed to the networks. After pedestrian coverage the first morning, the cameramen sharpened, even anticipated Joe McCarthy's points of order. Said one: "When he looks disgusted, we put our camera on him." At one point, McCarthy passed a scribbled note...
...practicing was not done on his return, Oscar "caught hell." Oscar began to get professional engagements in his mid-teens, but his father never let applause and paychecks go to his son's head: "You're not going to take money for that, are you?" he would snort, whenever Oscar showed signs of undue pride...
...tailoring for himself an identity that better fitted his grand manner and handsome appearance. By the end of his life, he had done such a good job of costumery that he seemed to believe himself a nobly descended Welshman, and the phrase "these English!" uttered with a lordly snort, was his favorite expression of contempt...