Word: snorts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...editor would let Mr. Rinchart write instead of a simple "he said," such things as he started, he snarled, she snapped, she giggled, said the man evenly, and said the woman triumphantly. Ring Lardner once wrote a satirical story in which every character always said things with a lordly snort, or with an easy sneer. Mr. Rinchart should read that story...
...mention of the fact that Columbia has a few good ball-players also brings a derisive snort from Little, who means that Columbia's freshman teams of last year and the year before were "the worst in Columbia history" and that hence he has no new blood to pep up his squad...
...mention of the fact that Columbia has a few good ball-players too brings a derisive snort from Little, who means that Columbia's freshman teams of last year and the year before were "the worst in Columbia history" and that hence he has no new blood to pep up his squad...
...stationary part of the big show. Prosperity, heat, the feel of victory and the Derby Day jockeying of the candidates gave Philadelphia the look and sound of a midway. The tabloid New York Daily News suggested that its atmosphere could be sampled by remote control simply by "swallowing a snort of bourbon, lighting a cigarette, putting scented talcum powder on a damp baby and inhaling...
...people who love the opera for itself . . . object to the sneering and leering of those who choose (shall I say to be charitable) to be so damn superior. . . . The singers do not "snort and bellow!" If they did they would find themselves out of a job-but quickly! And one does not attend the opera to see acting. Get that straight! One goes to hear . . . the ecstasy of the human soul in song...