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Word: cynics (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wasn't really a cynic. The boys thought he was, but they were prejudiced. Gus was just the janitor, and all janitors are queer ducks to college...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cynic | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...understand, one couldn't exactly call Gus a cynic. The Dead-bones thought he was because he laughed when they said "Brute" Howell had school spirit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cynic | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...wasn't really a cynic. It might have been school spirit. But he couldn't help laughing. You see . . . he had to clean...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Cynic | 12/7/1934 | See Source »

...fancy man. Back in Paris, he finished medical school, practiced in a slum, got mixed up in an attempted murder, and ended as the unwilling locum tenens of a lunatic asylum. Daring Author Céline makes Bardamu tell his story himself, lets him show himself a cowardly cynic, timeserver, hypocrite, liar, tacitly defies the onlooker to cast the first stone. Many a reader will find nothing handy to throw. Shocking to the Goncourt Academicians mainly for stylistic reasons (says Defender Daudet: ''It is written in Parisian colloquial speech, a very special language, superficially lazy yet fundamentally exact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seamy Side | 4/30/1934 | See Source »

...indignation by writing letters: Casper Milquetoast, in a fit of public spirit, wrote to the Pullman company about insects in his berth and promptly received a complimentary and apologetic letter two pages long. He proudly displayed this to his friends as proof that corporations do have souls, until some cynic discovered and pointed out to him a faint penciled note on the back: 'Send this s.o.b. the bug letter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECOVERY: Heckling from the Hill | 1/29/1934 | See Source »

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