Word: cynic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...first number of the University Cynic, published by students of the University of Vermont, has appeared. The paper is by no means so forbidding as its name, which, we are informed, is chosen solely on classic principles...
...these are the utterances of the cynic Randolph...
...best part of this book is not the description of life at college. The scenes preceding the hero's admission to college are admirably drawn and the account of the Alpine trip is entertaining. The most prominent character is Norton Randolph, a good-natured misanthrope, a cynic of cynics, well read in all the literature of the past and present, and well guarded against all excitement or emotion. We won't say that we have met exactly such a person at college, but we have met a few very like him. The explanation given of the cause of his peculiar...
...then as Butterfield was twenty-five years old and was not a cynic, of course we all know he had never been in love. In fact, he frankly admitted that he knew nothing of women. He knew none of the secrets of flowers, fans, gloves, smiles and the like which I believe come under the head of "Feminine Fancies." I say I believe, because I myself am rather an unromantic chap, and only know about these things from what I have heard on occasions like the one described above, when a last glass had caused the friend on my right...
Merrivale's "Cynic," although a well written play from a literary point of view, has been an utter failure as a dramatic work...