Word: sardonicism
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If premature Bonus payment was to become national policy, pondered Senior Gorin, why not pay "veterans" before they were even called to the colors? It would be a particularly happy circumstance for those who would not come back from the war to collect. Into his sardonic scheme he let a...
That his sardonic mind can also generate constructive ideas, Dr. Hooton proved last week in the leading article of Science, entitled "An Anthropologist Looks at Medicine." Therein he suggested a common ground whereon Anthropology and Medicine might get together for the benefit of mankind.
1914, 1918 & 1936, It was rumored that if the League Council (which acts in vital matters by unanimity) should attempt to impose sanctions on Germany this would be blackballed-by the vote of Denmark, scared Socialist neighbor of the Nazis. It was said that if the Council sought to re...
Friesen's style is fresh and vigorous. There is a sardonic humour that is not laboured or sought after. Even the note of hope that creeps into the end in the form of a dream conversation is mildly contemptuous. It is the writing of a man who has seen life...
Robert Taylor's strong, dark features grin with all the sardonic glee of the cynical, hard-drinking, good-for-nothing; but later he is equally adept at registering first, tearing remorse and shame, and then calm and steadfast determination. And Irens Dunne, as his tranquil victim and ideal, gives us...