Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...debate was waged with considerable flippancy and sarcasm by both sides, and laughter was much provoked...
...have noticed letters of complaint but heretofore I have had none to make. But how cruelly you have betrayed my trust in you. With your flippant sarcasm...
...Caillaux with weary irony." Of course, I don't know, but is not the satire? pointing Is out not of irony the saying foibles one of thing - people meaning the opposite? He meant exactly what he said. You place yourself with those lower classes who enjoy using sarcasm" when they mean "irony...
...moment it looked as though they were going to have a chance to feature something besides the President's taciturnity. He was "obviously annoyed." It seemed for a time as if he might pound his fist. Then the Coolidge lips pursed themselves. From between them escaped "vitriolic sarcasm." Without raising his voice the President dealt scathingly with open and covert opponents of his debt funding and budget slashing plans...
...minority report was voted on first. Senator Spencer undertook to defend it while the Democrats laid down a 'barrage of sarcasm. The vote was 42 for rejection and 28 for acceptance. The Democrats without exception voted for rejection. So also Farmer-Laborite Shipstead. The Republicans voted for acceptance with these exceptions: Insurgents Brookhart and Frazier (LaFollette and (Ladd being absent) ; semi-insurgents Norris and Norbeck who, as members of the committee, signed the majority report; Obstructionist Hiram Johnson; the Independents Couzens and Borah...