Word: sarcasm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Mr. Chamberlain rose to answer that evening, he was obviously angry and shaken. His thin face, seldom giving an impression of vitality, was ashen and his voice was husky and low. With heavy sarcasm he wondered that Mr. Churchill dared let Parliament adjourn for even two weeks...
Public utilities were an avenue into which private capital could flow, he said. Now that the TVA fight was over, this avenue was open again. Not without sarcasm, but still reassuringly, Harry Hopkins added: "There has been no indication that government wishes to own and operate all the utilities of this country...
...Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters. ... No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself...
With a combination of nostalgia and sarcasm, he recalls the good old days when "we had 'fight talks' before every game and between the halves. We were pumped full of it, till we were ready to go out and die for dear old alma mater...
...strange lands. They weren't just fairy tales; they were satire--bitter, clever, biting, calculated ridicule of the life and society of eighteenth century England. Written in beautifully flowing, powerful, yet childishly simple language, they are considered perhaps the best satires in English. It is indeed a cruel sarcasm--and society's revenge on the author--that his best works should now be beloved only of children who read vacantly, failing to comprehend the purpose of the writings...