Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actress would pop up in Hollywood. Yet 9-year-old Jane Withers, Fox's latest bid for prepuberty adulation, is all that Hollywood might suppose a popular child actress should not be. Her round irregular face is almost entirely surrounded by a mop of straight black hair. Her snub nose screws up like a Boston bull pup's. Her plumpish figure looks far better in East Side gingham than in dainty drawing-room voile. When so directed, she can be as unladylike in speech as a baseball umpire. These qualities indicate a career that should remain top-notch...
When informed of the snub Massachusetts Medicine had given Dr. Truesdale as a result of her case, she wept great tears and cried: "Those cruel, old fogy New England doctors. . . . Oh, I love Dr. Truesdale. What can I do to help him? He was grand...
...Snub. Last year President Roosevelt sent greetings to the Chamber. Year before he addressed it in person. This year he cut it dead. Chamber officials and White House secretaries denied an intentional snub, explaining that the President was too busy to speak and had not been asked for a message. Nevertheless, the Chamber rebels trembled in defiant delight, convinced that they had thoroughly riled the President...
...pioneer in the art of personal salesmanship, simply oozing elusive charm and sterling worth from every pore." Benjamin F. Butler was "a classic example of the bartender politician, with one eye and that bleary, two left feet and a genius for getting them into every plate, too important to snub." But he quotes sympathetically a remark of Butler's (who, as commander of the Northern troops in New Orleans, was the mosthated man in that city), when Southern ladies pointedly turned their backs on him: "These ladies evidently know which end of them looks best...
What did Mrs. Roosevelt think of that for a snub? Mrs. Roosevelt did not think it was a snub at all. "A snub," she defined, "is the effort of a person who feels superior to make someone else feel inferior; to do so, he has to find someone who can be made to feel inferior." From that it followed that Miss Perkins could not possibly have been snubbed...