Word: sardonicism
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Taking the pen without a flicker, sardonic Premier Laval wrote as his precious thought of the moment, "10%." Then, scribbling his autograph beneath, he strolled out as pleased with himself as only a French statesman can be when he knows that France is not only acclaiming his heavy statecraft but...
Died. Dr. Charles Norris, 67, famed, sardonic, goat-bearded, public-spirited Chief Medical Examiner of New York City; of coronary cirrhosis following acute dysentery; in Manhattan. Hoboken-born, educated at Yale "Sheff," Columbia, Kiel, Göttingen, Berlin and Vienna, he taught pathology, became director of the Bellevue Hospital laboratories, was...
Writing not of politicians by & large, but of such specialized spellbinders as Big Bill Thompson, Tom Heflin, Cole Blease, Smith Brookhart, and Huey Long, Author Wallis' humor is often dated, with the date somewhere before 1929. And his grave instructions that candidates emulate the more impressive fatuities of eminent...
As the sardonic member of the Swanee Sisters, she accompanies the action with a running fire of contemptuous comment on Raft, the radio, the Swanee Sisters' sponsor, a socialite party which the Sisters attend when they tire of Raft's monastic regulations of their conduct, worldly success in...
Although Biographer d'Ydewalle writes much of military successes and pre-War diplomacy, tells many an anecdote of highly-placed Germans who admitted their humiliation at the invasion of Belgium, his chapters on the War years are strangely naive and repetitious. Determined to establish Germany's guilt, he...