Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When a reader complained that the Gazette had "been praising that old shyster," White retorted: "There are two ways of handling an opponent in politics ... to sneer at him ... to treat him fairly. . . . We have opposed [the President] now for three successive terms. . . . We are going to oppose him for a fourth term. But if, to oppose him, we have to make a more objectionable ring-tailed jackass of ourselves than nature made us, by saying that what F.D.R. does well is bad, then we shall . . . fail...
...STATEMENT THAT THESE MEN "SNEER" AND "WAIT FOR THE DAY THEY SIGN ON FOR DOUBLE PAY," UNTIL AND UNLESS IT CAN BE PROVED TO BE A GENERAL PRACTICE, IS AN INTOLERABLE INSULT TO BRAVE MEN VOLUNTEERING FOR DANGEROUS DUTY...
Rough and rambunctious, uniformed as sailors but fully aware that their civilian status permits nose-thumbing at M.P.s, the 13-week volunteer trainees sneer at their $50-a-month pay, wait for the day they sign on for double pay of $200 a month, or $250 for those qualifying for higher ratings. Extra bonuses for a voyage to dangerous ports come to about...
After years of playing fabulous amateur detective roles with blossoming starlets clinging to his manly arms, George Sanders finally gets top billing in something better than a grade C picture. But even the sophisticated sneer and the amorous leer that made "The Saint" famous, working overtime, can't haul "The Moon and Sixpence" out of the morass of mediocrity...
...with great brilliance." Instead, Sanders became one of the best scene stealers in the business and one of Hollywood's more sinister personifications of Evil (Man Hunt, The Son of Monte Cristo). As Evil, Sanders' greatest asset has been a suggestion of cold intelligence and a nasty sneer. Hounding Evil, as The Saint and as The Falcon, has been duller work...