Word: snubbings
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...Snubs & Snobs. On the Continent, there was James, the Paris grandee who was painted by Delacroix, hobnobbed with Meyerbeer and Rossini, was the subject of a story by his friend Balzac, the object of a snub by his friend Heine. In Austria, during the early days, the Rothschilds had Metternich as their friend at court...
...gaudy, snub-snouted racers that roared past the fluttering starter's flag in last week's Indianapolis 500 rolled on identical Firestone tires and were powered by identical 350-h.p. Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engines.* In the family feud that followed, what counted were the driver's skill, the speed of his pit crew-and pure luck...
...this ancient act of lese majesty, Dame Edith took pen in blue-veined hand, rattled her Tibetan bracelets and administered a crushing snub to Villiers David. Wrote she: "I am surprised that after your insolent references to myself, Sir Osbert and Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell [her younger brother] made in verse some years ago, you should have the impudence to invite me to waste my time at your show...
...champagne inauguration of the U.S. embassy building in his new inland capital of Brasilia. Coming after Quadros had personally promised the wife of U.S. Ambassador John Moors Cabot that he would be there, the undiplomatic failure to show up was interpreted by many as one more Quadros snub to the U.S. But the President, explained his supporters, was putting the finishing touches on a new and dramatic appeal to Brazilians to accept austerity...
Pravda's picture shows Venusnik as shaped like a snub-nosed howitzer shell, 80 in. long and 41 in. in diameter. Protruding from its body is an assembly of aerials that resembles a windmill, and a pair of wings that house scientific gear and solar batteries. Included in Venusnik's gear are an automatic thermostat to regulate temperature and orienting equipment that 1) prevents the vehicle from tumbling, 2) points its solar batteries constantly toward the sun. and 3) keeps its main aerial facing the earth...