Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teller of the tale of Aitutaki was Archie Campbell, onetime hard-boiled Seattle Post Intelligencer newsman, now second engineer in a Liberty ship. A world-traveled cynic, Campbell had always scoffed at South Sea legends. But now he testifies: New Zealand owns the island, but has governed it by leaving it alone. The normal population includes 2,000 Polynesians-strong, handsome men & women. Aitutaki has no commercial value and in peacetime is almost never seen by white men; now it has a holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding...
...portray the life of a composer to the audiences which attend movies is not liable to be good but this one is definitely worth seeing. Whether or not one likes the picture depends largely upon his temperament and mood at the time he sees it. To the extreme cynic it would seem unduly emotional. The naive but delicate might enjoy it exceedingly. And it doesn't pack the wallop that "Gunga Din" or "Roy Ralston--Cowboy...
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...