Word: sneering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...solid column by Arthur Brisbane and an editorial by myself. When I do not have time to write one, I quote from my speeches. Here is a sample: 'The red communists and socialists are a far less imminent peril to the country than the complacent 100% Americans who sneer at prohibition in the constitution and connive in its nullification...
...They sneer at me for leaning all awry...
Even the most rabid Klansman must feel at times when he puts moth balls in his uniform after a parade, that perhaps history will sneer at him, at his fiery crosses and his spooky Klonvocations. But, at least, in the encyclopaedias where uncolored statistics can cover a multitude of hokum, he and his several hundred thousand "brothers" will get Justice, find Pride. Perhaps he was disillusioned last week on looking into the three new supplementary volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, wherein able Arthur B. Darling, one of the rising young assistant professors in history at Yale, disposes of the modern...
...action along "Capitalistic" lines. As he ascended the Tribune all the Communist Deputies and most of the Socialists leaped to their feet, stamping, screaming, hurling oaths and an occasional book, shoe, inkstand. . . . For almost five minutes absolute pandemonium reigned. From the Tribune M. Poincaré looked down with a sneer only partially masked by his beard. He, ever fearless, did not sneer rashly. His compact figure stood symbol for the might of his "Sacred Union Cabinet" (TIME, Aug. 2), uniting all parties but the extreme Left groups. M. Poincaré possessed, and none knew it better than he, powers which...
...curbing and driving Italians along the hard road mapped by II Duce. Mussolini. The Premier's lips were observed to curl silently last week when news gatherers asked him for a statement concerning the new decree virtually suppressing all individuality in the Italian press. Well might Signor Mussolini sneer. When attempts were made by the pre-Fascist regime to curb his reckless individualism as editor of II Popolo d'ltalia, he responded to restraint by purchasing a supply of bombs and hurling them when assaults were made upon his editorial sanctum. If Italian editors of today are less...