Word: caustically
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Your convictions are not without an answer here in America. Few Americans were on the front long enough to react after this ironical year of "Peace" to the smells and sounds of your words, without which we cannot grasp your great or caustic truths. We are dangerously equipped to inform those who follow us, and we look to you and others, as Barbusse, to aid us. That which was enabled to bring back with me from a few months of war's reality was founded on my vivid associations at your Fifth Army school during that army's Paschendaele attack...
...undergraduates; he has turned from that bulwark of New England tradition-the Manuscript--to the "Americanism" and osmopolitanism" of Hearst. But never before the current number has he set himself up as a crusader. Now he has dropped his wonted jollity and dedicated himself to that "stern god, Caustic Alkali." He has shed his Jester's trappings, has taken on a snake skin, and, with adder's blood, pursues the vermin. phrosyne sits alone at home...
...your paper of Oct. 25, 1917, I saw a caustic criticism of Yale's athletic stand. One sentence states: "There never has been any real reason why Yale should not have gone into football at the start of the college year as most other universities have done...
...defence, however, he was every-where, in fact so good at one stage that Haughton said in his caustic criticism after the game, that Legore executed the finest defensive play he had ever witnessed...
...Daly takes his part wonderfully well. The Master, a man of clay, caustic humor, who dominates others with his materialistic but liberal ideas, is before us in the life. When he is involved in the wheels of his own scheme of existence, it is with a feeling almost of loss that we find the Master dominated, after all, by his emotions...