Word: snorter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Burning Daylight. Milton Sills is a red-hot rip-snorter of Alaska-so hot that he calls himself Burning Daylight. He finds gold, all right. He takes it to San Francisco, where he blunders into polite society. The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three...
Percy Hammond: "Well-behaved rip-snorter...
...Snorter...
...informed student of Psychology that here is one of the outcrops of a Freudian repression. The mentality of these marginal annotators, to judge from their manuscript, is somewhat lower than that of the higher Simiidae, and on a level with that of an usher in the movies, an amen-snorter in a Cumberland plateau camp-meeting, or a Dr. Frank Crane. Therefore, in any gathering of civilized men, they are compelled to remain silent, and this for two reasons: first, because they cannot understand the conversation; and second, because their remarks cause rude mirth. Hence their innate longing to criticise...