Word: sardonicism
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Two men rushed in & out of the bedroom without knocking: South Carolina's Senator Jimmy Byrnes, foxy, mellow, casual; Florida's Senator Claude Pepper, the eloquent, scarlet-faced swamplands slicker-both 100%ers. Big & little Democrats came in hordes, some humble like San Antonio's globular Maury...
Thus the alliance between the Republic of France and Great Britain against Germany, born 36 years ago in lofty words and twice sealed with blood in Flanders, rushed toward its nightmare end, with friend killing friend and the old enemy a sardonic spectator.
Until last week Beth. Ship.'s prime mover was tall, slim, sardonic-looking Samuel Wiley Wakeman, who had been building ships ever since he graduated from Cornell in 1899. Vice president & general manager in name (Beth. Steel Head Eugene Grace is president), he had been Beth. Ship.'s...
Of New England's polyglot labor he heard from a rich, sardonic old Yankee in Groton:
HARDY OF WESSEX-Carl J. Weber-Columbia University Press ($3). Centennial biography of the great tragic English novelist, which traces the originals of Hardy's Wessex characters. Hardy of Wessex offers an excellent dossier on Hardy's weaknesses-his melodramatics, re-use of plots, gnarled syntax, dullnesses-gives...