Word: snubbings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
Just eight days after Louisiana sent Huey Long's snub-faced son Russell to the U.S. Senate, Georgia voters triumphantly revived a political dynasty of their own. Trooping to the polls under a sizzling sun, they elected tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Herman ("Hummon") Talmadge, 35, to fill the last two years of tobacco-chewing, red-gallused Ol' Gene's term as governor. It was like old times again...