Word: snickering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tombs, with 45th Street still in his blood, Chalmers wrote Taken from Life. Last month, at Brooklyn's Academy of Music, it had its premiere. When guns refused to go off, bottles refused to pour, and the melodrama became increasingly witless, the audience started to snicker and laugh. The play dragged on so long that its last six scenes had to be cut because the stagehands wanted to go home. At Sing Sing, where going home is more of a problem, the audience was far more patient and sympathetic, hated to have to stop for dinner. When the moment...
...extent to which she is superior to her material, Comedienne Lillie rates second to none. Whether she is impersonating a British gentlewoman, an Alpinist, a geisha, a barmaid or a star-crossed lover in a railway station, she never fails to convey by a twinkle in her eye, a snicker, a gesture, that she is enjoying quite as much as the audience the fool she is making of herself...
...their epigrammar: "Two gongs don't make a rite." An engagement "is exactly like giving a hungry man a menu and then turning him out of the restaurant." ". . . Genius is merely an infinite capacity for growing pains." Those who know Gertrude Stein's famed motto may snicker at "A Rolls is a Rolls is a Rolls...
Although it has been the tendency of the public to look upon the loud-mouthed Huey's escapades as opera bouffe, and to snicker at his elevation of Abe Mickal, star of the gridiron to the rank of state senator, the ousting of the college students is somewhat less laughable...
...through and through The Richberg blade went snicker-snack! He left it dead and with its head He came Frankfurting back...