Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Less scurrilous was the examination of Dr. Clarence Cook Little, president of the University of Michigan. With murderous sarcasm Dr. Little was found competent in respect to his athletic, religious and social qualities, but wanting in that he is a biologist, a "loud" approver of birth control and one who had "publicly declared that compared to Oxford, Harvard wasn't so much. . . ." Besides, if Dr. Little was the chosen one, why had Dr. Lowell not yet resigned...
Later in the evening with Senator Fess's plan cleared away, the Senate went on an agricultural rampage. Members jammed the aisles, waving bills and amendments, dispensing sarcasm. Vice President Dawes rapped for order and rapped again; Senators yelled desperately that they did not know what they were voting on. Finally, at 9:20 p. m., emerged a tiny bill, sponsored by the Administration. For the establishment of a co-operative marketing division within the Department of Agriculture, it appropriated $225,000. (Most farm bills deal in hundreds of millions...
...final argument for Scopes disintegrated the seemingly concrete issues in the powerful solvent of logic made caustic with sarcasm- Mr. Clarence Darrow was speaking. The Court will deliberate before delivering its decision...
...Paris, journalistic sarcasm was drowned in archeologists' enthusiasm when Digger de Prorok laid his finds before the government. Professor Stephane Gsell of the College of France demonstrated before the Institute of France that Tin Hinan, whose tomb and skeleton he was inclined to believe had been found, could not have lived earlier than 1,000 B. C.; probably about 900 B. C. Others aimed their guesses at her actual date between those two centuries...
...Administration news organs throughout the U. S. reported in a tone of irony bordering upon sarcasm that the President considers the League's invitation most courteous. They positively asserted that the President would refuse this invitation, since he indicated clearly that the U. S. Government expects to deal with each of the Court-adherent states separately. The President further indicated that the Senate's reservations must be accepted or rejected as they stand...