Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lawren S. Harris (whose painting matches Rockwell Kent's for sober, barren clarity), stopped the debate cold by a passionate outburst: "It is blasphemy to wilt under the weight of ages; to succumb to secondhand living; to mumble old, dead catch phrases; to praise far-off things and sneer at your neighbor's clumsiness...
...Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer...
...Malabar Hill). He changed quickly to a tropical grey suit, blue & black striped tie, black & white sport shoes. Later, as he read to a reporter passages from one of his past speeches, Jinnah screwed a monocle into his right eye. He wears Moslem dress only because his enemies sneer that Jinnah, head of India's Moslem League, is lax in his religious observances. ("Jinnah does not have a beard; Jinnah does not go to the Mosque; Jinnah drinks whiskey!") With his perfect English, which he speaks better than his native Gujerati, his slick grey hair and graceful, precise gestures...
...respectable Chinese gyp them openly. When Navymen began swarming ashore at Shanghai, the swank Park Hotel jacked its liquor prices 50%. Nightclub proprietors-Chinese and foreign-vie with each other in trying to take U.S. servicemen for all they can get. Ricksha drivers double and treble their fares. Waiters sneer at anything less than four times the conventional...
...even five-corpses are going to be too many for one feature-length film. But as soon as the cast is thinned down to working consistency, three expert craftsmen-Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston and Roland Young, as splendid old scoundrels-are given a chance to peer, leer and sneer it up for all they are worth. With Louis Hayward and June Duprez to add youth & beauty, the last five survivors manage to make a mildly interesting stretch run for the finish...