Word: sarcasm
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whom do not feel like buying a five or ten dollar book for one month's use, that the requisite facts may be found in, for instance, Brodhead's "History of New York," Ferguson's "Handbook of Architecture," or Knight's "History of England," is hardly aware how much sarcasm there is in his words. Meanwhile the Library fund is being expended in trashy French novels or massive tomes of recondite lore, wherein a fruitless effort is made to reconcile science with orthodox religion...
...finished reading the last chapter of that old, dirty, torn copy of Jane Eyre which belongs to the University Library, and which has been read evidently by thousands of dirty-fingered students, some of whom have greatly enhanced the intrinsic value of the book by wise criticisms and marginal sarcasm. The sombre cast of the tale made me gloomy. I thought of my degree and the chance I had of obtaining it. I hastily reviewed in my mind the three years I had already gone over, and thought how many mistakes I had made. Why had I not chosen different...
...Collegian, with a happy combination of injured dignity and scathing sarcasm, denounces the members of the Freshman class for their unanimous refusal to subscribe to the paper. After all, as there are only twenty-two Freshmen, it is hardly worth crying about...
...seems to me that it is about time that something should be said in defence of that much-maligned creature the proctor. The violent censure and scathing sarcasm that have been hurled upon his defenceless head for weeks past have entirely destroyed his nervous system. He has grown prematurely old. I dare say that a close observer could detect a few straggling gray hairs in his head. No more do we hear the sound of the "squeaking boots" ; his manly tread is silenced. 'T is pitiful to see him moping on the corners with his brothers, or sitting with...
...learn from the Bowdoin Orient that a banquet lately given at Brunswick was enlivened by "the wit of Charles Dudley Warner, and the speeches of other distinguished men." There is sarcasm somewhere, but whether it is that Mr. Warner's remarks do not deserve to be called "a speech," or that the other gentlemen cannot be called witty, - this is a question we shall not attempt to solve...