Word: snubs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Irishmen would have it that last week "King George received a direct, personal snub from President de Valera." Actually the tall, teacherish, wild-haired executive of the Irish Free State (which Irishmen say "is not Irish, is not Free and is not a State") conveyed to Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald a polite, though stiff intimation that "in existing circumstances" he "will not be able" to attend the Royal Jubilee with other dominion heads. In attendance, however, will be the Irish Free State's London-resident High Commissioner...
...smelling area of the nose grows most before the child is six months old. In early childhood the middle part of the nose grows most. In later childhood the lower part of the nose unfolds and grows until about adolescence. The faces of most snub-nosed grown-ups simply froze prematurely. Many of them, when children, just lacked proper food to grow...
...matter as it has now been reported will probably be interpreted by barbers everywhere as a deliberate snub to their profession. Kentucky's Governor having learned that a tonsorial artist is on his list of Colonels "will see to it that no other follower of the craft receives an appointment." That is a cut worse than any plunderingly made by an incompetent barber...
...girls lifted and Miss Maxwell levitated nervously. Back in her chair, she shrilled: "I think it mad fun, utterly mad! I shall introduce it at my party for Noel Coward. . . . Why not toss the subject into the air and then run? It's a splendid way to snub an unwelcome guest. . . . Do it again...
...further snub to Scapegrace Carol II, George V. who detests "that bounder," caused to be invited Carol's cast-off wife, Her Majesty Helen of Greece and Rumania who resides in England...