Word: snorters
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Dates: during 1920-1920
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...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...