Word: flippant
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Suddenly at midweek, Singapore burst into cheers. The British Malayan Command at last threw the Australians into battle. Flippant as ever, the Aussies moved up to the line, through columns of haggard retiring Britons and Indians, in busses marked' "Tokyo or Bust" and "Nippon Express...
...Mikado was called off for patriotic reasons surprised me mightily. In the first place it has no trace of Japanese or pseudo-Japanese music except the chorus Miya Sama, Miya Sama. ... In the second place, the whole opera is exceedingly offensive to all Japanese because of its flippant treatment of their divine Mikado. . . . So let's not deprive ourselves of some fine entertainment and a chance to insult the Japs. . . . J. C. THOMPSON Borinquen Field...
Publicity releases have it that the flippant, bantering, light-hearted tone of the film, aside from the air-battle scenes, is the result of suggestions from the British Air Ministry that the grim side of England's struggle be played down. Some movie fans might object that amid the highly significant events which the picture portrays, the success or failure of Tyrone Power's blackout pursuit and courtship of Betty Grable doesn't seem to make a lot of difference to anybody. Such a criticism is not without its point; this bomb-ridden little romance does trot merrily along through...
...Sarah Bernhardt's many "farewell" tours he wrote: "To me in every role she is the Mona Lisa, disinterested, semi-smiling, and inscrutable save for the knowledge that she insists on being paid every night in fresh $100 bills." His high irony made his pages sound flippant to the stuffy, but to all others his fastidious values were plain enough. Many actors hated Percy Hammond, many others recognized his pith. When the Chicago Tribune announced that he was being sent abroad to cover World War I, a Chicago actor remarked: "Heavens! What if he doesn't like...
...TIME sympathizes with the feelings of the second Mrs. McAdoo (daughter of Woodrow Wilson), who divorced the Senator in 1934, but maintains that its story was neither flippant nor unfair...