Word: stingingly
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...this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable changes in the life of the University, has donated ... a considerable part of his personal fortune. . . ." True, true. But then, ah, then came the sting. "The time is certainly not far distant," wrote the unmentionable one, "when he will tender his resignation and commence the enjoyment of a well-earned repose." Facts are all very well, but some facts simply are not discussed without provocation. Here, with Dr. Lowell in his vigorous prime, was no provocation. Harvard...
...country is decadent, but they always imply that the remedy is simply to place them in power. Individual critics may make despondent observations, but usually they urge a pet reform to set the world aright. Even cynics of the Mencken variety who see little virtue in mankind alleviate the sting of their sneers by a tacit admission that their circle is not beyond saving...
...were trailing three runs to two at the start of the sixth frame, when they practically sewed up their twelfth straight triumph in five years at the expense of the University, on misplays by Zarakov and a bad break in the outfield. The Freshmen wiped out some of the sting of this defeat by trouncing the Holy Cross first-year aggregation by a decisive 6 to 1 count. The Seconds bowed to the Brown 1929 squad by a 3 to 1 score...
...clever enough, his intimation is, they could tell questionable stories in a humorous vein which would alleviate the usual sultry effect or with scientific discernment which would allay popular and fallacious deductions. Yet he never once asks himself or his readers why newspaper men should want to draw the sting from crude news to protect a public which will pay the price to be stung...
...sweet or bitter, is the essence of autobiography. Cartoonist McDougal's is exhilaratingly tart. Roosevelt once warned: "He can sting like an adder," but could have amended, from his knowledge of the man and of adders, that he was not wantonly poisonous. The tongue that flickers through these pages feels for its cheek oftener than not. And another thing: adders do not boast...