Word: flippant
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...Times' S. T. Williamson '16, it copies popular Time almost slavishly. Adjective-loving News-Week lacks advertisements, photos of its own. Harvard men have seen most of these pictures before. News is sorted out under headings, "Sports," "Foreign." "Art" etc., like Time, but its pictures are not captioned by flippant Time-style quotations...
...Canada; Norman James Dawes, head of National Breweries, Ltd.; Hon. Charles Avery Dunning, a power in the prairie provinces; Hon. Charles Colquhoun Ballantyne, head of Sherwin-Williams Co. of Canada (paint); Sir Charles Blair Gordon, president of Bank of Montreal and an officer or director in some 25 corporations. Flippant brokers annoyed Calvin Bullock's Montreal office by solemnly inquiring why His Majesty George V failed to be elected to the board. The new trust will invest a small portion of its funds in such U. S. companies doing a large Canadian business as General Motors, Eastman Kodak, National...
...Lawrence than one he gives himself: "And my Cockneyism and commonness are only when the deep feeling doesn't find its way out, and a sort of jeer comes instead, and sentimentality, and purplism. But you should see the religious, earnest, suffering man in me first, and then the flippant or common things after. Mrs. Garnett says I have no true nobility?with all my cleverness and charm. But that is not true. It is there, in spite of all the littlenesses and commonnesses." Readers of Aldous Huxley's Point Counter Point who recognized "Mark Rampion" as a sympathetic portrait...
...Shaw-Terry letters, "In the Worst Possible Taste" travesties most of our contempories including G. B. S. and John Riddell themselves. Few escape unscathed. From Gertrude Stein to Floyd ("Hello Everybody") Gibbons, all receive their due. Presumably, the author takes nothing seriously, and because he has this delightfully flippant air, he can got away with a good deal that serious critics would never dare set forth...
...Saturday Review, Mr. John Boyd-Carpenter self-confessed educational authority strokes a black N. G. on American colleges. With a trenchant promise that American colleges are mere scientific factories and with a world almanac reference to the effect that a million student attend them, he sweeps on with a flippant grandeur to evolve a series of serious charges. Offering as his proof a penchant for mossy Oxonian intellectuality and an unpalatable homily on football over-emphasis, he states dogmatically that "the American undergraduate has neither time nor energy for intellectual relations," that "the companionship of the opposite sex, synthetic...