Word: cynic
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Deeply alarmed by the College attitude, even though she has never been voted worst anything by the cynic Poon, Deanna was the first to answer the letter sent by the War Service Committee, to 12 stars, including Veronica Lake, Ann Sheridan, and Betty Grable...
...this week the meeting was more remembered than the charter. Acrid H. G. Wells had called it "an ambiguous document, full of holes and escape clauses." An American cynic had called it the great est public document since the Republican Party platform of 1936. The simple fact was that the Atlantic Charter had kindled no fires. Most of the fires that had raged in the world in the twelvemonth were made by the enemies of the U.S. and Great Britain...
There was a tall, thin cynic in the early thirties there also, with his little blonde mustache twisted into a habitual sneer. A junior high school general science teacher, no doubt. The Vagabond mused sympathetically upon this probably frustrated soul and his inner struggles. He had never wanted to teach general science to squeamish thirteen-year-old girls and still-juvenile boys. Vag was sure of that; nobody could possibly want such a job. But when it fell in his path, there hadn't been much for an indifferent, unemployed, distinctly mediocre college graduate to do but accept...
...more than skin deep and that a few dermal alterations won't make the course of true affection change. You may have dropped this notion the same year you recognized poppa's schnozzle above Santa's whiskers, but "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" will make even the most case-hardened cynic wish he believed it true...
...midst of preparation for an Ec or Physics exam,--it is bittersweet. Everyone is wildly happy through reel after reel. Then a tinge of dewey-eyed sadness and the molasses rolls up and down the aisles in great gooey gobs. The whole thing ought to give even the mildest cynic indigestion for weeks...