Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ever imagined, skin and muscle clothing perfect bone work of chin, cheek and forehead. The straight thin nose, the large sherry-colored eyes ... all suggested breeding. Yet the mouth hung loosely, the eyes were twin pools of despair, and now that they were looking at her, something like a sneer crept into them...
Laden Family Tree. To those who sneer at First Families-a group that includes most of Lev's well-trounced political opponents-a Saltonstall is open game. The family tree is conspicuously laden with riches and dignity. Saltonstalls have been as prominent as their long noses and lantern jaws, as far back as their carefully kept genealogies go-21 generations back, to Thomas de Saltonstall in 1343 in Yorkshire, England...
...sermon after being enthroned as Archbishop of Westminster, Monsignor Bernard Griffin, Primate of English Ro-man Catholics, told the international congregation in jampacked Westminster Cathedral that easy divorce, birth control, books and films that sneer at the sanctity of marriage, are all signposts along the road to ruin. Said he: "The decline of a nation has always begun with the disintegration of the family...
Navy's Pride, Navy's Woe. Seabees are a rough & ready outfit, hardboiled, hard-driving ex-civilians who sneer at protocol and red tape and are always taking short cuts instead of "going through channels." They have had their tiffs with the always proper Navy. Stevedores, handling all sorts of supplies for the fighting forces, sometimes cut in on such items as new shoes, jackets, a case or two of Coke. Proud of the work they are doing, the Seabees have sometimes blown their horn too brassily for regular Navy ears. But they have proved both to Army...
...Motion Picture Herald. Manager Watson runs El Paso's Mission Theater. "From the beginning," he writes, "the boys and some of the girls . . . decided they were going to run things as they pleased." Sometimes "when told not to roam the aisles, to quit talking, smoking, etc., they would sneer or spit in your face." Plenty of the young folks smoked marijuana. In the Mission's first three months, Manager Watson lost three customers by sudden death. The Mission, Mr. Watson observes, "is not a class movie...