Word: caustically
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...pioneer, he was prepared to defend his narrow-gauge ideas from any and every angle. Narrow-gauge Pullmans would be an advantage, said he, because "the coaches would not be so wide as to allow the sleeper to roll with the movement of the train." Said a caustic newspaper writer...
...from the Ministry of Information went suave Alfred Duff Cooper, Minister since Winston Churchill became Prime Minister last year, whose suavity has suffered somewhat in defending the organization of the M.O.I. from caustic Parliamentary critics who like it as little as he does. Still in the Cabinet, Duff Cooper was given the dutiless post of Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, assigned to go to the Far East to report on the coordination between military, administrative and political authorities there-a job which should keep him busy for some time...
Russia's politically naïve many and politically cynical few may have swallowed this without even a gulp of tea, but outside of Russia it did not go down so well. Croaked the London Daily Mirror's caustic Columnist Cassandra: "Come off it, you gnarled old humbug! If ever a man picked up the starting gun and fired it to throw the world into war, that man was Comrade J. Stalin. . . . We can do without this hypocritical bilge, Comrade...
...Navy does not object to thought as such, but prefers to have it muted. Gutty, caustic Joseph Taussig never muted his ideas on reforming the cumbersome naval bureau system, reorganizing the fleets, pussyfooting with the Japanese, many another controversial subject...
...Most caustic of the nine scholars is Yale's Walton H. Hamilton, Southmayd professor of law. Excerpts: "In an opinion of some 5,000 words . . . the judge rises to every error which opportunity presents. ... At City College there must be nothing said or read about Biblical men who looked with lust upon female flesh. . . . The student body at City College consists of males, chaste or unchaste, some of them over 18, with morals poised so delicately that, if Bertrand Russell expounds mathematics or philosophy, they are impelled to abduct and rape, while if he does not appear in their...