Word: caustically
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...that year Lieutenant John Barker wrote down for his own amusement his keenly critical observations of the famous events at Concords, Lexington, and Bunker Hill, his opinions, often expressed with biting sarcasm, of General Gage, Colonel Smith and Colonel Clark, and his caustic comments on Yankee and British general staffs alike. There by he provided a contemporary historical document of exceedingly great value...
...Swamped" was the expression of the Advocate editors when they surveyed yesterday the fruits of their "dry" contest. In all, 478 letters were received from every sort of person. The wet states have contributed fewer names and lass caustic ones than the states where enforcement is strict...
...time of passion, when wisdom is not attainable." And when Mr. Zangwill charges us with moral callousness in our attitude towards prohibition, and what not no one is surprised. When, relenting somewhat, he hastens to add that Americans "are just beginning", he takes some of the sting from his caustic comments...
...proves her liberality; C. Haddon Chambers?"no matter what his income might be, he always lived beyond it;" Hall Caine?"he believes what he writes;" Marie Corelli?"per-ennially youthful in appearance, and caustic in conviction;" Sarah Bem-hardt, on losing her leg: "Patience, my dear Marbury, I will soon hop in to you;" Mrs. Patrick Campbell and her diminutive canine, Nanky-Poo; "inimitable George M. Cohan," who wanted his name in the book; David Belasco, "who has done more to enrich and to advance the dramatic art of. this country than has any other single producer;" Gertrude Atherton "planted...
...Charles Blount Jr. '18 writing from Lyon, France, to the Alumni Bulletin makes use of the familiar "reductio ad absurdum" argument to demolish the case of those who contend that no one should "deny to any young man the opportunities of a Harvard education." And he indulges in some caustic irony at the expense of those who, on the grounds of democracy and liberalism, would throw open the gates to every eager young...