Word: sarcasms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Born into the Establishment and determined to stay there, Stanhope found the leisure to write poetry and critical appreciations of Corneille by marrying wealthy Adelaide ("A good wife. An invaluable partner. Such a relief when she died"). Stanhope was not without weapons: his unflappable poise was buttressed by arctic sarcasm that could condescend to Curtal as the "idol of mediocrity" who picked up other men's ideas as a robin does crumbs...
...Paul Revere Panel" of the Republican Party came to Quincy House Friday night, and, mixing sarcasm with seriousness, gave warning of the need "to save America from the Kennedys...
...help the taxpayer stay pure, the Internal Revenue Service has set up a system of checks and double checks. When a return first lands on the desk of a local collector, it is scanned for proper information and necessary enclosures. Minor errors are corrected, and marginal sarcasm from taxpayers calmly endured. But wait! Less obvious errors, or outright evasions, are searched out after the returns have been routed to three data-processing service centers across the U.S. There returns are translated onto a punch card and checked by machine for arithmetic accuracy. The U.S. taxpayer is pretty punk at adding...
...general House concern about the capacity of John McCormack to achieve real stature in the Speaker's chair. All could agree that McCormack, after 33 years in the House, has a keen and crafty mind, that he is a diligent worker and a dangerous debater, with a knifelike sarcasm that can cut an opponent to tatters. McCormack delights in being described as "The Fighting Irishman from Boston," and he is all of that. But some Congressmen wonder if that is enough...
...these first two volumes of The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, which trace him to the age of 27, Hamilton emerges as a dazzlingly brilliant young man, autocratic certainly, but far from austere, a proud and self-confident pragmatist, a deft writer with an equal flair for savage public sarcasm and impassioned private love letters, and a leader who suffered fools...