Word: snubbingly
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When Humphrey got up to speak, the Senate elders, one by one, led by Harry Byrd himself, quit the floor. -Angered by the pointed snub, Humphrey shouted defiantly: "The shrinking violet has not been clipped." He still thought that the Byrd committee was "a sort of political zombie," that it claimed credit for economies that the Administration had accomplished on its own hook. Cried Humphrey: "I would not say that was patting oneself on the back. I would say that is just twisting oneself up like a pretzel and spinning and announcing to the world the greatness...
...Snub-nosed, ruddy-cheeked Bill Keady had been practically raised by Avery. He joined U.S. Gypsum's marine department in 1924 after quitting the Navy (Annapolis, class of 1916). A vice president in charge of operations when he was 38, he was Avery's choice for president ten years later in 1942. As Keady took over more & more of the company's operations, Chicagoans almost forgot that Avery had anything to do with Gypsum...
...This song, Rendezvous, is for fickle Maria who made a desperate lover wait two hours the other night . . ." "This samba is for redhaired, snub-nosed Sabina, who lives by the watermill . . ." "This record is for cross-eyed Albert so that, listening, he will have to stop his evil gossiping for at least four minutes...
...circulating many of the spiciest tales. When Elsa Maxwell noted that her leading man in The Dancers did not seem very convincing in his love scenes, Tallulah lowered her sultry lids and purred: "Perhaps not on the stage . . ." When it seemed that a certain man was trying to snub her at London's Savoy, legend has it that she called: "Hello, dahling, I'm sorry you don't recognize me with my clothes on." Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, the expert on sex statistics, recently tried to get an interview with her, but the matter was dropped when...
...served to create an attitude of unpleasantness prior to the 1926 encounter. Princeton credited participation in the Yale game and the Harvard game equally towards getting a letter, while at Harvard a letter could be acquired only by playing in the Yale game. Princeton athletic authorities considered this a snub, and wanted Harvard to adopt a policy similar to Princeton...