Word: sardonicism
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Today Adolf Hitler, except that he is no Kaiser's henchman, has fulfilled most of the sardonic 1925 reasons for voting-or not voting-for Hindenburg. The President votes for Hitler-that is, last week he endorsed the blood bath in a personal telegram to his Chancellor and last...
For the first time in 14 years it rained for the Bond Club of New York's annual field day last week. The rain annoyed a troupe of women swimmers and divers hired for entertainment more than it did the 300 members who journeyed to the Sleepy Hollow Country...
The trifling story was written and directed by George White, who cast himself in the role of George White, celebrated producer. Mr. White's initial attempt to transmute the warm fleshliness of his revues to the screen suffers the same cold fate as other Hollywood musicomedies. Original ideas such...
Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler last week chose, as subject of one of his most sardonic pieces, Philadelphia Turfman Joseph Early Widener. Excerpts:
In Going Hollywood (Metro-GoldWyn-Mayer) Marion Davies stands proxy for all U. S. radio enthusiasts who grow sickly sentimental over crooners. In a girls' school she listens to the songs of one Bill Williams (Bing Crosby) which so stir her that she pursues him to Hollywood. There she...