Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there are a few traditional bits of advice worth passing on, if only for the sake of the record. Avoid blind dates at Radcliffe and that hideous building on Mt. Auburn St.; ignore resolutely the vultures outside Memorial Hall (except, of course, those offering the Crimson); and learn to sneer with fine Bostonian indifference when you meet the people who can always tell a Harvard man, etc., and who, convulsed, offer the simile: "As aloof as those men about to enter Harvard...
...among those elevated to a knighthood on King George's birthday honors list. Forgiven, if not forgotten was his 40-year-old gibe: "Knighthood is a cheap commodity these days. It is modern Royalty's substitute for largesse and it is scattered broadcast. Though all would sneer at it, there are few whose hands would not gladly grasp the dingy patent...
...appeal would be, how serious or how ephemeral the challenge to Harvard traditions, how practicable the affair from a mechanical point of view -- these are questions which the dance committees must decide. "De gustibus non disputandum est," and it may well be that an institution long discussed with a sneer can serve a useful and desirable purpose...
Sever plays the part of Mr. Puff, a playwright; Palmer Baker '39 and Vernon Hodges '34 are cast as Mr. Sneer and Mr. Dangle, critics who accompany Puff to the dress rehearsal of his Elizabethan verse tragedy called "The Spanish Armada." Miss Spencer is Tilburina, the English heroine of the play under rehearsal, and John Barnard '39 is her faithful Spanish lover, Don Whiskerandes...
...Many used to sneer that the adopted-daughter system was Atatürk's method of keeping a harem after he had abolished outright polygamy. Atatürk's daughters, however, were invariably plain girls. The Ghazi, not particular in his choice of women, preferred painted cheeks and lips. By giving talented young women the protection of his name he could set them to work safely on jobs never before attempted by a Turkish woman and thus symbolize women's new freedom...