Word: cynicisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aforementioned quotes were Boolba the cynic. His true love for humanity is evidenced by the fact that up until six months ago he was an ardent vegetarian because he couldn't bear to think of eating an animal that had been killed so that he could have his fill. Something must have happened six months ago, for today he say: "Now I feel that I could eat a human being... that is, if he were well prepared...
...Deals. A loyal Tammanyite and oldtime pillar of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, Joe Day was always a tough trader. When he engineered the sale of Tammany's famed 14th Street headquarters, one cynic penned a sarcastic parody of When Day Is Done, ending...
Roundy dubs himself "the old lawn-mower pusher." He is as much a town character as a columnist, knows everybody, gripes at tavern prices, poses as a callous cynic while collecting hundreds of dollars for crippled children's camps and other charities. His style is not a pose. He talks that way, dictates his column...
...inclined than the Boston Yankee to parade his sense of being, like the Lowells, just this side of God. He comes, of course, from "the land of steady habits''-though Uncle Toby sometimes likes to eat peas with his knife. A bit skeptical, he is nevertheless no cynic. He does not kindle, like a Boston Abolitionist, at one touch of the match. Nor would he blandly go to jail, like Thoreau, rather than pay taxes to a conscienceless Government. But if you provoke the Connecticut Yankee-or Wilbur Cross-you will discover that he is no softy...
...fighting to make a better and happier world. The Young Soldier thinks that is very nice, wonders how it is to be brought about. He decides to collect his thoughts during a walk. Out of the bosky underbrush pops the Devil in the person of Captain Percy Nick (Per-Cynic). The Devil, Heaven's most unsuccessful politician, laughs at the Young Soldier for worrying about Politician Cripps and at all talk of a better world emerging from the war. "When the devil was sick," he misquotes Rabelais, "the devil a saint would be. When the devil was well...