Word: sardonicism
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The Man has been known about Manhattan's Greenwich Village the past ten years as a sardonic bombaster His tall story of football at Notre Dame (see above) is one of his more amusing less lurid ones. He has the vocabulary of many sciences technical and social, at his command...
No General had been German Chancellor up to last week since the days of gruff ungracious General Count Georg Leo von Caprivi who succeeded Prince Bismarck in 1890 and is remembered by the Fatherland because he won her so much African territory, notably the crooked strip called "Caprivi's...
Excessively tall, sardonic and adventurous is the King of Denmark's cousin, Prince Aage, socially famed for his discovery that "Paris nightclub champagne tastes exactly like licking a dusty window pane." Last spring Aage, weary of Paris, was permitted by the French Government to re-enlist in their blood...
THE NARROW CORNER-W. Somerset Maugham-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Though Publishers Doubleday, Doran blurb The Narrow Corner as if it were another Of Human Bondage, it is not. Returning to that indeterminate East of which he has often yarned before, Author Maugham spins a tale that in less sardonic hands...
At 62 Dr. Adler is grey but dynamic. When he lectures he strides to & fro on the platform, wrinkles his nose so vigorously his eyeglasses quiver. He talks English with an Austrian accent. There is something infantile about his features, something fugitively masked by his glittering eyes and sardonic smile...