Word: flippants
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your issue of Oct. 5, you printed tha reply of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler to Congressman William D. Upshaw's challenge to debate with him the Prohibition question. To say that Dr. Butler's reply is flippant is to speak mildly. Dr. Butler should set a good example to the young. That is not an effective way to teach. They are not in need of examples of flippancy, rudeness and insult. Dr. Butler could have ignored the challenge, but why publicly insult Mr. Upshaw? He says the Congressman's nickname is Pshaw and hence...
...hard to understand how any one reading Goethe could ever get the idea that he had a low conception of woman. In his judgment of women he is sometimes critical, but never flippant. On the whole a profound respect of woman pervades his works...
...given place to Menckenism: assertion to negation, political enthusiasm to the religion of militant cynicism. As one experienced radical campaigner in, the colleges put it, Scot; Fitzgerald is more revered than Scott Nearing in undergraduate circles of the intellectual elite. Apparently economic and political radicalism has fled from the flippant milieu of the undergraduates, to the more earnest atmosphere of the theological seminary...
...ideas on the distribution of wealth, labor unions and the revolution, but rather is it made up of the care-free, mentally and morally loose-jointed "flapper" whose twin passions are disrespect and personal nonesty and whose favorite word is "moron." It is all very gay and most earnestly flippant. Evans Clark. In The New York Times Magazine...
...Evans Clark, upon superficial evidence, has dismissed it all as a "flippant revolt." Mr. Clark never made a greater mistake in his life...