Word: paradoxity
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Like the spiteful dwarf or pixie in a fairy tale, the Rt. Hon. Philip Snowden made all sorts of mischief, last week, in the House of Commons. He may even have lost (or, by a strange paradox, won) the coming General Election for his party (Laborite). Insulting Frenchmen, roiling Italians, vexing U. S. statesmen and bringing tears to the eyes of His Majesty's Foreign Secretary, Sir Austen Chamberlain, were a few of the pixie's mischiefs. Mentally Mr. Snowden is honest, alert, fearless. Long years of suffering from a spinal affliction have warped him physically, reduced...
...most interpreted of religions reaches a fitting finality of paradox nowhere so thoroughly as in the celebration of the birth of its founder. Christmas embraces a variety of activity bounded at last only by the mistletoe of the Druids and the tinkling jewelry of Texas Guinan. Those who bear the costliest gifts and those who humbly pray in the chill obscurity of the cell both sight the same event as test for their expression of honor and devotion...
Among Frenchmen the familiar U. S. paradox of a rich man "dry as a matter of business" but socially wringing wet is significantly turned inside out by Cognac Tycoon Jean Hennessy. "As a matter of business" M. Hennessy spends millions to extol the virtues of "***Hennessy," probably the best of large production brandies. Mixed with equal parts of Italian Vermuth, famed "***Hennessy" becomes the surprising and delicious "Ponce de Leon Cocktail," a beverage of smoky, tingling undertaste-and bland, stimulating potency. It is said that M. Hennessy conceived the "Ponce de Leon" as a shrewd means of booming "***" above English...
Crossing the channel to Britain, one finds as dean of the distilling peers the venerable Baron Dewar. His whiskeys fire throttles on five continents. About him there is no paradox, no equivocation. To the core of his very liver Lord Dewar is a practicing and preaching wet. He claims that whiskey is his Muse. Without her stimulus the Noble Lord believes he never could have produced his famed "Dewarisms." Many persons consider this fact a most powerful argument against spirits. Observers may judge for themselves from sample "Dewarisms" from the latest batch proudly released by Baron Dewar...
Observers friendly to Marshal Feng noticed that he, with the potent inconsistency of greatness, has now turned his broad back upon the Russian Soviet Government which, two years ago, was furnishing him with most of his money, ammunition and supplies. It is an historic paradox that the Nationalist Party, which conquered China with Russian propaganda and Russian gold, is now absolutely estranged from Moscow and on the friendliest terms with U. S. business...