Word: cynically
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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...
...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...