Word: causticity
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...word 'liberal' is curiously ineffective; so are the liberals themselves." Thus Professor R. K. Rogers '09, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology characterized this title and this group in a caustic speech to the members of the Liberal Club last night. "One would like liberalism if it were not for the liberals. In their ranks is a fringe of people which cannot be respected, and whose morals are often of doubtful calibre. As a type they are likely to go to extreme wrath with regard to some things, and then to have absolutely nothing to say concerning others...
...most caustic critics had to pass on to the cemetery at the age of thirty-three. A brilliant mind, but lacking in balance; and I would say it was entirely because he had not given his body the attention and care to which it was justly entitled. . . .* Loving care you give your body will be returned with many rich rewards. It will insure you good digestion. . . . It will give you bright eyes...
...much that would be generally interesting and enlightening is not to be doubted. Practical considerations also would seem to dictate that those directly responsible should take the rest of Harvard into their confidence if only as a sop to that militant class of persons who enjoy the making of caustic post facto comments when they feel that they have been denied an even passive participation in the proceedings...
...adage is quoted in its popular form, "Those who can, do. Those who can't, Teach." In view of your characterization of this as "bitter and unfair" you may be interested to know of Bernard Shaw's recantation or at least modification of that caustic remark in his Preface to The W. E. A. Education Yearbook (1918) pp. 20, 21 : "This, by the way, is the best answer to my famous gibe, 'He who can do, does: he who can think, teaches' is just as true as the other formula...
When Mr. Dawes removed his pipe to speak, his words were still those of a dollar doctor, a caustic budgetarian. In words scarcely those of a diplomatist, he announced loudly enough for every foreign country to hear him, that if the Dominican Republic adopted his commission's recommendations it would be the first independent nation to have a thoroughly modern and scientific budget system...