Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Haunted House. That strangely combined optimist and cynic, the first-nighter, shook off the lethargy that has consumed him through the mass of inconsequentiality thus far produced this season. He was going to a play by Owen Davis, with Wallace Eddinger in the lead. He relied on the tradition of ably-contrived amusement that these two have reared. He emerged dispirited. The tradition had tumbled...
...construct canals running from St. Nazaire, the French port, to Switzerland and linking up with the great Central European canals. If adopted the canal would afford continuous water traffic from the Atlantic Ocean to the Black Sea, across France and along the Danube. The brain of Voltaire, famed cynic, philosopher, friend of Frederick the Great, grandfather of rationalism and the French Revolution, was offered the Comédie Française as a gift by a descendant of the undertaker who embalmed the body of the great writer. The gift will be placed on public exhibition. Voltaire's heart...
...cynic who said "Every man has his price." It was Calvin Coolidge who declared that freedom has its price. Last week a volume of his speeches and essays was published under the title The Price of Freedom. It is an expression of his views on national affairs expressed in the generalized, aphoristic style which the public by this time knows well. Excerpts...
...Cynic Bromfield-Healthy Wiley first novels on the new season's lists offer an interesting comparison in The Green Bay Tree* by Louis Bromfield and The 'Education of Peter by John Wiley. They show admirably the tremendous difference in Which exists between the War and that just younger, and by generation I mean a "college generation." Both of these young men are sensitive- artistic, well-bred. They spring from more or less the same environment , and they are both, perhaps, Naturally, fond of over-sophistication. Yet, in a sense, these books are a hundred years apart. The Education...
Shaw's play is totally modernized. English, and even American slang salts the speeches of his characters. His mocking wit runs through it. Yet even Snaw's wit cannot destroy Shaw's emotion. In the writing of this play the old sinner and cynic writes himself down as an incorrigible idealist...