Word: sardonicism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just to keep the record straight, attachment of the tag to Judge Miner was by no means sardonic.
Over and over, the seven defendants on trial for conspiring to incite a riot during the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago have accused Judge Julius J. Hoffman of interpreting trial rules to favor the prosecution. Hoffman's rulings have earned him a sardonic New Left label: "Julius the Just...
Here, clearly, is Trevor's sardonic back-of-the-hand to the non-Celtic Mrs. Eckdorfs of this world. But he is too Celtic himself to lift more than an edge of the mist that he has spread. What is Trevor's answer? What, for that matter, is...