Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your article on Mayor James M. Curley of Boston [TIME, Oct. 24] was a masterpiece of subtle sarcasm. However, I fear that if you had any idea in mind of influencing the electorate of the city of Boston, your efforts were futile...
...Murphy was an $8,500-a-year assistant U.S. attorney, and an unknown. Throughout most of the trial his conduct had been pedestrian and plodding. Now, in his summation, he surprised everyone. He marshaled his facts impressively. He matched sarcasm with Stryker, and outdid him. When he was through, the issue was no longer Hiss's word against Chambers'; it was Hiss's word against an impressive structure of evidence...
Halfway Back. The sarcasm is more friendly than biting, for Kingman takes a naïve delight in U.S. ways. He keeps the radio in his studio going constantly ("It softens my mind and helps me paint. I know all about Luncheon at Sardi's and Heigh-ho, Silver!"), and all through dinner he watches television programs with his wife and two children. "To Chinese people," he says, "football is very queer, but I like to go and see the games. Also, I play bridge once a week...
...this, his second major novel in two years, John Horne Burns wields an unbated sword of satire and sarcasm in a one-sided duel. With extraordinary dexterity, Burns has severed the suspenders of a certain unnamed New England private school, exposing its tattered foundation of tradition, clique, and petty prejudice. The parallel with this certain school seems to be all too accurate...
...hope that his sarcasm doesn't hurt anybody too much. Sometimes he is cross and short and sometimes he is kind. At present he is cross and short...