Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...forget to change your socks when you get your feet wet, will you?" He is refreshingly masculine without being a blatant personality boy. He creates an impression of hard-fisted strength coupled to the right amount of feeling without resorting to the Clark Gable sneer or the Buddy Rogers grin. "Sky Bride," now showing at the Metropolitan Theatre, finds him in a congenial, if unimportant role of a stunt aviator who kills a pal in an accident and then waits around until a Hollywood climax pops up when he can remain his nerve and once more become an "eagle...
...mean to say that the English undergraduate is really well prepared for labor problems, I only say that he is better prepared than the American freshman. He has read much more about his won country's history, and in better books. It is hardly our place to sneer if the Englishman feels at eighteen that he will now learn more about his country by going a long distance away to look at it. He already knows it directly better than we know ours, and he can afford to try another angle. He goes to Greece and Rome...
...brought on by the fact that Professor Mathiessen is lecturing today on Benjamin Franklin. Franklin may have had feet of plaster, but it was the plaster of Paris. A man once wrote a book about Franklin and called him "The First Civilized American." There are some who will sneer cynically and say that, granting this was true, he was also the last...
...Factor was in Court to hear the royal warrant read, to sneer at 250 pages of depositions made by swindled Britons at Guildhall and forwarded from London...
...know that many Englishmen sneer at the North American idea of publicity and describe their methods of boosting as vulgar. . . . I am sorry to say that we are sadly behind the times in the field of advertising...