Word: jibe
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...Senate [see NATIONAL AFFAIRS] . . .[and] probably antagonized the U. S. as nothing else could have done." Continuing at length but in choppy and disjointed style, Mr. George then slung all the mud he could from every possible angle. Observers, somewhat nauseated, regretted the absence of even one really telling jibe in the Welshman's best style...
Thus, with his nerves jangling and raw after the adjournment of the League without admitting Germany (TIME, March 29), Sir Austen Chamberlain, the erstwhile "hero of Locarno" (TIME, Nov. 2 et seq.), returned to hear the jibe that "he strangled the Locarno peace dove with his own hands."* Cheerlessly Sir Austen sought his home. Two days' rest were vouchsafed to him. He slept, thumbed the recently published Intimate Papers of Colonel House for relaxation, and drafted with a vitriolic pen his "speech of accounting" to the House of Commons...
...life from all of its angles, just as others must refrain from seeing it from any angle. "Hatracket" will arise whenever Bostonians find their bucolic boundaries crossed by realism or by candor. And the same race which maintains the limits of Boston culture will frown upon those who jibe at the rouged tip of its saintly nasal organ even as they add more millions to those already heaped upon the altars or Bernar McFadden...
...Statue of Liberty, an especially, proportioned luminous dial on the arm that holds the torch. Diverting new symbolism the Statue will bear if the project is permitted. Not that Liberty will be marking time, on the contrary it will be up to the minute. To the scornful who jibe at our national efficiency, the watch will mean that we are a nation of time-servers, but others will find different interpretations. Kager-gazing foreigners will see at least one sign which they can read and understand. Though time flies it is yet everywhere the same...
With this cruel jibe the two combatants?as if hearing the bell that ended their recess?drew apart, leaving the school-yard to quiet and to Colonel House...