Word: sardonicism
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The fifty-fourth session of the Council of the League of Nations opened in Geneva, last week, with sardonic Vittorio Scialoja in the chair. This brilliant, skeptical Italian jurist comes of a line of Scialojas who have been magistrates and grand dignitaries since the 17th Century. He collaborated with Woodrow...
When a play has been publicly suppressed by Great Britain's Lord Chamberlain, it can still be privately performed before a "subscription audience." Last week such an audience of smart Londoners assembled unblushingly, rustling with anticipation, to see sardonic Alfred Savoir's suppressed drama The Lion Tamer or...
Today such sardonic defiance of an Absolute Autocrat and a Hypnotist-Monk may seem more witty than significant; but at the time it took titanic courage. No wonder the last, scattered, phantom remnants of the Imperial Army have remained fanatically loyal to Nicholas. Last week, in Nice, the Grand Duke...
The arguments of a post-election whispering campaign have at length become so loud that a mere "Hush!" from those called big-wigs is not enough to silence the speakers. Whatever that hard-gained Smith majority in the Bay State may have signified politically, it gave Governor Fuller, long the...
Composed entirely of accepted modernist leaders, the exhibition proved that the freakishness of cubism, vorticism, other truculent cults, is quite defunct. There was little that was crude, nothing that was incoherent. Gaugin's bizarre self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor...