Word: flippants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...CRIMSON is pleased to know that President Lowell appreciates the attempt now being made through an essay contest to suggest some remedy for prevailing food conditions at Harvard. Too often such endeavors fail because of their flippant reception. The letter from President Lowell, printed today in the CRIMSON, shows that the Administration, at least, has no desire to receive this particular effort in any but a serious and helpful...
...your manners are bad. You are flippant and you have no compunction in saying things which you know are offensive to a large and intelligent group of your readers. You take advantage of the attractiveness of your paper in other respects to exhibit an unfair and contemptuous spirit toward Catholics...
...American College and Its Rulers" by J. E. Kirkpatrick, Ph.D., is the latest addition to the Dollar Series, published by "The New Republic." Were this a flippant parade of personal prejudice similar to the recently printed work of Mr. Summerfield Baldwin, one could treat it other than seriously. Dr. Kirkpatrick is not, in any sense, flippant. Nor does he show any but an abstract prejudice against the states quo in university administration. Carefully, soundly, he build a theoretical case with which one can heartily agree...
Strangely enough, this onetime Britisher with the flippant mustache and the magnate's look is such a good friend of labor that in 1922 when the Philadelphia Rapid Transit Co. tried to oust him from management, the employes bought sufficient stock with their savings to keep him in poWer. Said a motorman: "Mr. Mitten is just an ordinary man with extraordinary common sense...
Thus exalted, John Lord proceeded to write melodrama and farce comedies for Broadway, not to be flippant but in all honest gusto. And it was then that he pursued and married Bernice Harden, icy and feline. After he had consumed the inner fire she had for him, turned openly to Eva Freyne, a hard worldling, and written his greatest book, Bernice forced him back to her and delicately smothered his life-until the War. What the War meant to him, and why he did what he did in an airplane, are his ultimate revelation, made by himself in a letter...