Word: cynic
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After all, it is hardly fair to arraign the undergraduate press alone for superficiality. A flow of printer's ink is the only division between the mass of students and the student editor. If cynic flippancy and supreme omniscience till the editorial pages, they are only the expression of one mind or the others of ill-directed curiosity that misses the value of circumspection, typical of the undergraduate attitude of today. The papers have become truer mirrors of current ideas than they ever tried...
...that does not explain the clouds in Europe. The visions of suffering are short-lived. The jealousy of patriotism is enduring. A new generation kneels to receive its inheritance, and is still too unsophisticated to toss aside, the spoiled portions of it. This is a perfect scene for the cynic, in all points but one; it is too genuinely pitiful...
...criminal lawyers. The big fees and the prestige result from study and practice of corporation law, estate law, banking law and to a less extent divorce law. Criminal law is a subject left to the unscrupulous shyster, the political heeler, the occasional social reformer or great charlatan or utter cynic. It has been remarkable, therefore, to watch the increasing emphasis which the American Bar Association has felt it should lay, at its distinguished annual conventions, upon the criminal tendencies and condition of the land. It has made laymen wonder whether there is any relation between the lawyers' neglect...
Reconciled. James Alexander ("Jim") Tully, onetime boisterous tramp, later a prizefighter, most recently a writer (Jarnegan, Circus Parade); and Mrs. Margaret Myers Tully. After a separation of five days they were reunited, due to the efforts of Cynic H. L. Mencken, Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey, Novelist Rupert Hughes...
...latter "a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose" which he does not favor repealing and which, "of course," he stands for enforcing vigorously, sincerely. "It must be worked out constructively," said Candidate Hoover, leaving public information about where it was. Clarence Darrow, cynic lawyer, tried to illuminate by announcing, in Cincinnati: "I don't think Hoover is any drier than I am. I ought to know. I have had a drink with...