Word: sneer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...corporal. He has turned his political coat so often that it looks threadbare even in Nanking. He started out a Communist. In 1927 he was converted to the following of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. In 1928 he wrote a book on China's Hero Sun Yatsen, which Chinese now sneer at as his "knocking brick'' (Chinese used to knock on doors with a small brick; in this case, Mr. Chou was knocking at the door of politics). By 1938, he had swung over to the opposition camp of Wang Ching-wei. By last week, though still working...
...stated that in Montreal I had referred to the child refugees from England as "riffraff." You also made some sarcastic remarks about my giving some of my so-called "blue blood" to the British Red Cross, but that latter statement is unimportant and you have every right to sneer at me if you so wish to do for giving what was so very much demanded in New York through the radio. But I must ask you to . . . retract the statement that I said or even went anywhere near saying that the English little refugees were "riffraff." . . . I have devoted...
...would lose control of his muscles and leap like a jitterbug. His cavorting was invariable: he curved his fingers like claws, walked on the outside of his feet and jerked his legs in the air. Sometimes he twisted his head to one side, curled his lips in a sneer, and rolled his eyes upward, mumbling and clucking to himself. The only way to stop an attack was to lie down and go to sleep...
...highbrow readers will cast the book aside after one look at the jacket. Intelligent folks just do not read Western novels, with pictures of covered wagons and cow-punchers on the outside. So Walter Van Tilburg Clark's "The Ox-Bow Incident" would get no more than a sophisticated sneer from the educated elite...
Heading the list of factors-for-the-good is the cast. Seldom have audiences witnessed a more perfect chronic sneer than that of Laurence Olivier; seldom a more perfect break-down that the first proposal scene. Greer Garson is the second edition of Myrna Loy,--and the second edition can act. Honorable mention goes to Mary Boland, whose past career has been a rehearsal for the part of Mrs. Bennett, and Melville Cooper, whose depiction of stuffed shirts is rapidly approaching...