Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until, 56 hours later, when he had dipped the flesh-colored clay in wax, inserted glass eyes and dressed the victim's original hair, which providentially had been recovered near the skull, he had before him the snub-nosed, sullen face of a temperamental Irish girl...
Proclaimed Queen of the Lettuce Festival last week was snub-nosed Opal Sorenson, telephone company employe. Together with two giggling high-school girls, she put on bathing suit and rubber boots, climbed into a huge wooden bowl. From two nearby trucks two pretty girls chucked tons of lettuce into an ensilage cutter. Shredded to bits, it was then blown into the bowl. Queen Sorenson added 100 gallons of ready-mixed mayonnaise. Wading in, the three girls stirred, churned, whipped, mashed. Dripping from head to foot with lettuce & mayonnaise, they pitchforked it out to eager Kentians, for whom there...
Since the French Senate consists mostly of wealthy greybeards, their rage at being sent five such bills by the Chamber of Deputies showed itself in rudeness to whomever they could snub. Normally a Premier entering the Senate through its lobby is handshaken by dozens of greybeards. Last week Senators pointedly cut M. Blum, greeted in silence his appeals to pass the bills, refused so much as to debate them until the following week...
...Swift to snub Haile Selassie by sending diplomatic regrets were the U. S., Russia, France, Germany, Japan, the Little Entente, all the Scandinavian and Balkan States, and five of the 20 Latin American republics, plus all the British Dominions, vice-regal India and His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom. Captain Eden excused himself by saying that he had to make a political speech elsewhere. His swank Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Cranborne, explained: "My presence is possible only because I can meet the Emperor in a private, non-political capacity." In their official capacities came the Argentine...
First move to reassure Herriot was to snub the Communists' plan for "Popular Front committees" in every village and town to be shaped eventually into Communist Soviets. Then, speaking before the American Club of Paris, tactful Leon Blum came out for Herriot's two pet schemes: friendship with Germany and payment of the War debt...