Word: flippants
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...have been incensed by your flippant reference to the President's molar in your recent issues [TIME...
...Dealers . . . who are the real menace to American prosperity. . . . Until they cease to have power to run the Federal Government, confidence will not return to America. . . . Congress may be incoherent, but it is not so flippant as the President and his posse of experimenting and irresponsible advisors. . . . Will they dare to ring down the curtain on the President's prima donna performances which are at the root of this Crisis of Confidence...
...very much regret that in your issue of May 31, p. 60, under the heading People, that you have attributed to me, on meeting Colonel U. S. Grant at Vicksburg, so flippant a remark as "Yes, but they paid off on your granddaddy...
Perhaps it is all to the good if TIME'S edge is dulled a bit. For instance: my husband and a judge I know of formerly did not like your magazine because its style was too flippant (the judge's word) or "persnickety" (my husband's). Now they read it more frequently and with more relish, they say. But they like sugar on their grapefruit. I like salt. And I like the tang of the savory bons mots with which TIME seasons the news...
...sneering, flippant, utterly discourteous treatment given in the article to a movement which has enlisted some of the most esteemed religious leaders of our times, is utterly unworthy of appearing in a periodical of the respectability of TIME. To the writer it may be funny, but to intelligent people it is only disgusting...