Word: sardonicism
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Aimee Semple McPherson, famed blonde and ardent evangelist, arrived in Manhattan and prepared to sail for England. Her principal activities between coming and going were thus described by sardonic Reporter Edwin C. Hill in the sedate and newsy Evening Sun: "Having arranged for the movie men and the talkie-movie...
Romance is braided into the plot, not too skillfully. The better moments are those in which reporters are talking about their jobs and their women, or pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible...
Gore. The laborious effort of Senator James A. Reed to get nominated at the convention took a surprising turn when onetime (1907-21) Senator Thomas Pryor Gore of Oklahoma stood up to second. Mr. Gore is blind but Mr. Gore is cheerful. Excerpts from the Gore speech: "Four years ago...
After the publication of "The Sun Also Rises" there came a deluge of supposed decadence. It was of the same variety as, although not identical with, similar deluges in the last decade: such as that caused by Mr. Fitzgerald in "This Side of Paradise"; and that of the mysterious Mr...
A sardonic farce, its scene is a room in the Chicago Criminal Courts Building, where eight reporters are engaged in covering a murder trial. They have almost succeeded in persuading the sheriff to stage the execution ahead of schedule, in time for the early editions, when the murderer, a meek...