Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...drubbing or whipping will scarce stir up Sense and Power enough to move; and the Moment you cease beating the smart is forgot, and down they fall again into a state of Insensibility, drivling constantly from the Mouth as if in deep salivation; breathe slowly, but not unequally nor snort. Young people are more subject to it than the old; and the Judgment generally pronounced is Death, the Prognostick seldom failing. If now and then one of them recovers he certainly loses the little Reason he had, and turns Ideot...
...most casual reader to pause for a moment and think. Mr. Lewis has a very interesting idea, apparently instilled into him by his tutor, which he presents somewhat vaguely. But the article is more than worth the time consumed in reading it, if only to allow one to snort in disagreement and to turn on to something requiring less thought, which latter seems rapidly becoming a favorite with the majority of contemporary readers...
...broadened, bringing with it more of the terrifying odors; a snort of alarm, figures of men and horses galloping from concealment, the crack of rifles, carnage. As survivors of the herd thundered off into fastnesses of their island (18 miles long, five wide), they could not know the worst: that this was no casual foray by human meat-hunters, but slaughter by up-to-date sportsmen, with intent to decimate. Not hunger but commercialism had precipitated the onslaught. The buffalo of Antelope Island were doomed, all but about 50 of them, to make way for more manageable and profitable cattle...
...intensely admired technique was this: with his stentorian auctioneer's voice he would bellow, snort and puff and a draw a crowd; well observed, he then swooped a blanket over his head, writhed, snored, groaned, popped forth drenched with sweat (even "on the coldest day") and cried out fresh news from Allah. Frantic scribes would hasten to scrawl his syllables, whether intelligible or not, upon palm leaves, leather, stones, bones, or the breasts of bystanders. Each utterance was a sura (verse); the collection became the Koran, a marvelous conglomeration of divine edicts, personal justifications of and promises to Mohammed...
...radio world was optimistic. Said the New York Herald Tribune: "The day will come when all that is necessary to hear the King's speech to Parliament or the snort of the sacred white elephant in Siam will be to tune...