Word: sneered
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...days millions of people will clink glasses and kiss each other at midnight to celebrate the advent of a new half century. Millions of others will sneer and say that they should have celebrated this momentus event a year...
After a long, hard afternoon, the committee read Mickey a long list of gangsters, from Frank Costello to Charlie Fischetti. Mickey said he didn't know most of them, and was dismissed. As he left the room with a sneer on his face, old Senator Tobey remarked: "The committee must go into this matter further at a later date...
Fancy Pants (Paramount) bills its star as "Mr. Robert Hope (formerly Bob)" and interrupts its opening credits with his disdainful appearance as a 19th Century English dandy. Says Mr. Hope to the audience with a sneer: "No popcorn during my performance, peasants...
...been sitting in the lobby keeping an eye on the door, waiting to greet Farouk. For two days, aging Sacha Guitry, 65, playwright-playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx of reporters and photographers waited...
...March, are rugged and heavily forested with spruce, larch, birch, juniper, maple and walnut. In the forests lurk leopards wild boars, wolves and tigers. Still a menace to the northern peasants, tigers were so much a part of Korean life 30 years ago as to justify the Chinese sneer: "The Korean hunts the tiger one half of the year and the tiger hunts the Korean the other half...