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...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...
...drop of a diminished seventh, read newspapers while the music plays, shout "à l'operé!" or "à dormir!" when the music is too polite for their tastes. Worst of all for the progressive musicians, French Dixieland fans make a practice of invading modernist concerts just to snort and bellow...
...territory that lies on the opposite side of the river from their own, Irishmen from north and south of the Boyne frequently find reason to cross the border. By far the pleasantest way to make the trip is via the Great Northern Railway lines, whose engines snort with brisk Ulster efficiency from the lazy glens of Antrim past the Mountains of Mourne. G.N.R. trains cross the border between Northern Ireland and the south up to 50 times a day. Despite the anguished howls of a clergyman who shouted at its first run: "You are transporting the souls of otherwise good...
From John L. Lewis' headquarters came only an Olympian snort: "The mountain labored and brought forth a Moody." But even Lewis could not laugh off the sad facts of how high-priced coal is being squeezed out of the market by oil and gas. Coal production has dropped from 630.6 million tons in 1947 to an estimated 440 million tons this year. The industry's 440,000 miners averaged only 3.3 days' work last week, but in the southern mines some worked less than two days...
...however. On occasion, he visits old women at a rest home in the area. "It's like a prison for them," he says. "One delightful women there the nurses consider 'silly' because she refuses candy and won't speak. When I realized she spoke French, she replied with a snort, 'I hate the stuff' and we had a fine conversation...