Word: sardonicism
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As to the nation's financial community, skewered by investigations and hogtied by the Securities Act, Virginia's sardonic Senator Glass articulated a widely-held public estimate when he remarked: "Down in my town not long ago they hanged a banker for marrying a white woman."
In Mexico City this question was put last week by urbane, sardonic El Excelsior, newsorgan of Mexico's ruling class. "Here is a splendid opportunity for our infant film industry," declared El Excelsior, tongue in cheek. "A splendid opportunity also to effect that international reciprocity between Mexico and the...
Died. William O'Connell ("W. 0.") McGeehan, 54, famed sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune); of heart disease; at San Island Beach, Ga. He pierced the fog of ballyhoo around professional sport, turned a fishy eye on promoters, managers and their proteges, invented an elaborately sardonic slang.
The day of the Yale-Princeton game eight members of the Lampoon board, drove down to New Haven in two cars. They had scouted the scene of the crime a long time before and had had their plans all made out. Every one was at the game, and Pachs Studio...
For his return to U. P.'s United Feature Syndicate, there were several reasons be sides a substantial increase in pay over the $23,000 a year that had made him one of the best paid U. S. sports writers. The terms of Pegler's contract with the...