Word: ironist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Raymond Poincare, Nationalist Premier of France: " It was reported that I, at a session of the French Academy, walked arm in arm with the Socialist-author, Anatole France. At a doorway I said gallantly: ' After you. The Government yields to genius.' The great ironist accepted my tribute...
...being. Irvin Cobb has done that; but, after all, his humor is Brobdingnagian. It partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur. He is not a nifty hound like Marc Connelly, nor a worshiper...
...Only an ironist could describe football under the Haughton system as a sport. It is a learned profession, a vocation in the religious sense, a life work compressed into the space of three years. Its practitioners are vowed to poverty, celibacy, obedience and hard work. They sacrifice their personal comfort for a remote and dubious objective, hard to attain, dimly understood, and of more or less speculative value. It is a form of monasticism, a rejection of the world for the edification of the spirt. From this standpoint, the employment of Mr. Haughton at Columbia ought to be regarded...