Word: sardonicism
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Many Britons who had thought that newly installed Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was barren of humor changed their minds last week. Before the wildly cheering House of Commons in his first speech as the nation's leader, "The Unknown" Chamberlain not for the first time revealed a flair for...
The Federal Theatre is now offering "The Deluge", a static study of character by Frank Allen, announced by the lights out in front as a "sardonic comedy drama". A minor calamity visits a city on the Mississippi, and the responses made to the stress by ten assorted characters comprise the...
In July 1934 the St. Louis Post-Dispatch relieved its liberal chief editorial writer, Clark McAdams, of his writing job, kicked him upstairs to the executive desk of an associate editor. The following year Clark McAdams died. Many a friend of his believes that Editorialist McAdams' death was hastened...
The antithesis of Actor Gielgud, Actor Howard robs Hamlet of every shred of dignity and nobility: by being peevish with Polonius' garrulity instead of simply bored; by being quizzical when he means to be sardonic; by indicating neither method in his madness nor madness in his methods; by delivering...
All this excitement is displayed against the familiar Goldberg background of monstrous art & architecture. Like so many successful newspapermen, Rube Goldberg started in San Francisco. In 1907 he went to Manhattan, got a job illustrating sports for the Evening Mail. By chance he one day filled out his space with...