Word: sardonicism
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Skin for Skin?Llewellyn Powys ?Harcourt, Brace ($2.00). The three literary brothers Powys all gnaw without cease at the mouldering bones of old mortality. Llewelyn ("Lulu"), whose journal this book is, has best reason: for 16 years his lungs have harbored ghostly, blood-demanding tubercles. Yet Llewelyn is the...
In the finals, lank James O. Anderson of Australia gazed bitterly but with a certain sardonic resignation at the balls that bounded past, around and over him; occasionally he waved his racket at one, but for the most part he was content to let his opponent, Vincent Richards, have his...
5) It is possible to conduct concealed filibusters, where every speaker speaks directly to the issue, which it is almost impossible to break up by rule. Such a filibuster was conducted in the last session of the 65th Congress in 1918-19 in order to prevent the passage of revenue...
General Andrews was no ordinary soldier. He was the voice of Army philosophy. His works on how to be a soldier were the classic prose of reveille. They explained how one should get up in the morning and not hate it: "We proudly trace the traditions of our service directly...
At Winnemac, the itch was inflamed to an ache, a passion for pure science and meticulous laboratory research. The purposes of Arrowsmith's contemporaries were shoddy, sloppy (there was a beefy Bible-banger, a medical Babbitt, an icy, calculating dollar-chaser). And even stronger than Arrowsmith's reactions...