Word: snort
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...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...
President Coolidge, having received the letter, and having been advised that Mr. Pinchot's Prohibition passion had been mixed with senatorial soup, could endure no more. He, indignant, wrote to the Senate of the U. S. a letter which caused that august herd to snort and trumpet like so many hippopotami surprised at the feeding hour...
...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...