Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under the hypnotic taunts of Dovvid Pollock, cynic, Eli had to face the Apostles and refute, as became a fearless Jew scholar, the hated Christ. The Apostles made Eli Christ's man. In a Catholic woman's house where Eli, his lungs crushed by a lorry, his veins running morphine, hung in bandages, the Christ hung upon an alabaster crucifix. On the sixth day, the curtains of the niche opened to the sick man, Christ's wounds bled miraculously and Eli was recruited, another carpenter, to strengthen his brethren...
...between the wet fleet and the dry has killed the news interest of a speech on the world court, especially when that speech is made by the fiery Senator Borah. But let the observer take heart at this apparent indication of depth and breadth of thinking in America, the cynic points out that the arguments advanced by the Senator are hopelessly trite and superficial...
...broadcasting the proceedings of both Houses of Parliament. It must have shocked a great many grey hairs at Westminster. It was no doubt that "instinctive sanity" which prompted him to remark that the radio would enable millions to hear the debates of the Houses; and surely, as a cynic put it, the "radio world" should not be deprived of listening to the rhetoric of the Premier...
With the exception of James Kirkwood, as the clubman, the cast is selected with a characteristically canny eye. Edna Hibbard, as the honest, bitter cynic of the harlots, received the maximum applause...
Walt Whitman called it "the Presidential". Woodrow Wilson referred to it as a "great and solemn referendum". The average voter, whoever he may be, looks on it as a recognition of his own importance. The cynic may think it a waste of good time and money, but the patriot leaps to the ballot box with an unholy joy shining...