Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...general recently. Startling disclosures were revealed in the seniors' voting statistics announced at the banquet. Having voted girls as their favorite study, the 1927 Princetonians selected Harvard after Smith and Vassar as the most popular women's college. Harvard again came in for its share of good natured sarcasm when many seniors answered the question: "What has 1927 done for Princeton?" by saying, "dropped Harvard...
...Could detect no trace of conscious irony or sarcasm in a remarkable defense of U. S. films by that peppery late Victorian, Colonel Josiah Clement Wedgwood, M. P. When a member casually remarked that U. S. films should be barred from England because so many of them are indecent, Colonel Wedgwood leaped up and shouted: "No sir! You are all wrong. Beware that you do not plunge us from the American whirlpool into the French cesspool! Perhaps I shouldn't put it like that. But let's get away from the idea that American films are immoral. Dull they...
...Delirium of the 18th Amendment" is a searching sarcasm on the Great Misfortune, depicting a doctor endeavoring to cram a medicine into the unwilling maw of his patient, confined in a straitjacket. This is a Japanese jibe, by Eitaro Ishigaki...
...first possibly founded on prejudice, being her objection to a department headed WOMEN. Your news regarding women in previous issues, and especially in TIME Jan. 17, before such a department was named, has always seemed most satisfactory to her. Why label a column WOMEN ? One other stricture. Your sarcasm seems needlessly severe sometimes. She has no personal interest in Bainbridge Colby, nor Mrs. Colby, but the article involving them two weeks ago, seemed almost cruel in its severity, and serves as an example of what she means...
Justice McKenna usually armed himself on the bench with a magnificent, reticent dignity, but in times of argument he rose like an angry emperor slashing controversy with vehement logic, scorching opponents with Voltairian sarcasm. Off the bench he was as genial as an Irish sergeant...