Word: flippants
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Small men with momentary reforms and transient fancies arise to enjoy brief hours upon the stage of public favor. President Eliot for years has been the sage and sufficient reference for such little men. Like some wiser leader of an often flippant people he has continued the just and mellow sage whose words are never hollow, ever filled with wisdom and purpose. The CRIMSON extends to President Eliot sincerest good wishes on this, his ninety-second birthday...
...have noticed letters of complaint but heretofore I have had none to make. But how cruelly you have betrayed my trust in you. With your flippant sarcasm...
There is clear-headed continuity in the ordering of the book, and also a flippant, strained use of fuzzy words. The historian sees his people motivated by eccentric ideas and insanity. The devil, by the vulgate wording, had much to do with their successes?"hellish and dastardly tests," "devilish ingenuity," "his familiar demon." "For progress, God must send us a few more infernal marvelous searchers of the kind of Robert Koch." He sees them all of a pattern and is frank: "But the stumbling strides of the microbe hunters are not made by a perfect logic, and that...
...falsetto with which they retail remarks that appeal to them as effeminate. Honest men stared, read under the headline an article which informed them that "Oh, Dear" was the actual name of the Prince's horse. These men had a curt criticism of the headline writer's awkward and flippant line. "Stupid," they said...
...Lewis Carroll, famed for "Jabberwocky," called them "portmanteau" words, two or more meanings or images being packed in together. In the illustration, "delicious-excruciatingly-flippant-quips" becomes two easily pronounceable new words...