Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sullivan's Travels (Paramount). Scenarist Preston Sturges, who became a cinema director two years ago, has successively and refreshingly satirized U.S. machine politics (The Great McGinty), advertising (Christmas in July), and the boy-meets-girl formula (The Lady Eve). He now aims his brisk sarcasm at the moviemakers themselves...
Editor Herzberg's insulters extend in time from Job to Dorothy Parker, are grouped under such headings as Kings and Presidents, Scarified Statesmen; Scorched Politicos; Spite and Wit Among the Great; Whistlerisms; Sarcasm by Mail, Wire, and Cable. Some of the best...
Curtis Thomas, though not even a typical Harvard man, has turned in a fine job on his long short story, "Duration." His writing suffers a little from overly blunt sarcasm, but he conveys to his readers a sharp and biting picture of American upper-class attitudes towards the war, as seen through the eyes of an English child refugee, Although his idea of British morale may be partly a product of wishful thinking, the contrast he brings out between the British who fight without hating, and the Americans who hate without fighting is a powerful...
...absurd, they said, for the British censorship to try to hide the names of cities newly blasted by the Luftwafle, leaving citizens dependent upon German communiqués to confirm what their own eyes or common gossip knew quite well. Contributing to a concerted outburst of U. S. sarcasm, the Chicago Daily News correspondent, Robert J. Casey, wrote...
...indirect reference he made to Wendell Willkie, in noting that the men who came to Washington to help in the defense program did not include "holding company lawyers or executives." To point his sarcasm on Republican Congressional opposition he twice rhythmically referred to "Congressmen Martin, Barton and Fish," to the cLlighted boos of the crowd...