Word: snorting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reading his newspaper at the Columbia University Club in Manhattan where he resides, white-thatched Col. Lloyd Collis used to snort with annoyance every time he encountered a front page story "jumped" (continued) to an inside page. By the time he could find the continued part, his train of thought would have snapped. A civil engineer, a city planner, a man of action decorated by the U. S. and the City of Bordeaux for War service, Col. Collis took corrective steps. For three months he grappled with the problem; then he marched to his good friend Editor Julian Starkweather Mason...
...command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item which had been set in type for that issue. Now and then he would snort angrily at the "injustice" of some barbed paragraph, turn an infuriate glare upon his quaking underlings and announce that the story could not be true! For years the colonel had known the family under discussion and could believe no ill of them. Strike...
...colonel would not have been proud could he have observed how ignominiously death came, at least temporarily, to his magazine last week. But he surely would have emitted his favorite snort of satisfaction to see researchers in the New York Public Library poring over his famed Fads & Fancies?an ultra-elaborate "Who's Who" of society for which the subjects listed paid staggering "subscriptions." Twice during his life Col. Mann offered the book to the Library; twice, to his indescribable indignation, it was refused...
...Philip's loud snort of disgust answered the question before his torrent of denials. It was very evident that...
...perfectly logical process of reason, the next and last division of the book is entitled, "Lamentations." The chief lament is the talking picture. Like many of the modern critics of the legitimate stage, Mr. Nathan chooses to turn up his nose and snort rather than pay any attention to the potentialities peculiar to the screen. He writes, "What the phonograph is to the opera, the lithograph to painting, the plaster of paris cast to sculpture and a doll's house to architecture, the talkie will ever continue to be to the drama." The chief, and only explicable objection...