Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...training camp, Señor Victorio Maria Campolo, towering Argentine heavyweight fighter (TIME, June 24) tried desperately, ineffectually, to scowl, to glower, to crook his smile into a sneer, jibing onlookers, unconvinced of his ferocity, were told: "You should see him bulldog, skin and dress a steer for barbecue in nine minutes...
Speaking for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, characterized the W. O. N. P. R. with this sneer: "A little group of wine-drinking society women who are uncomfortable under Prohibition...
What happened to the Crimson, so free from "The stress and competition of the business world"? On October 23, Time, in an editorial, commented unfavorably on the North Carolina Game, and next day the Crimson rushed to the defense with a lead editorial entitled, "The Sneer and the Yellow Sheet." On February 8, Mr. Kenneth L. Roberts, writing for the Saturday Evening Post, made merry at Harvard's expense, and once more the Crimson responded nobly. Where was the Crimson on March 1; on that day, the New York World under the title, "More Sacco-Vanzetti Evidence", printed grave charges...
...this the realist has no answer except a sneer, or if he is ultra sophisticated, a gentle smile accompanied by the formation of a perfect ring of smoke...
Retorted "Wee Ellen," unruffled: "One expects from the Noble Lady that cheap sort of sneer...