Word: vitriol
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Robert Houghwout Jackson, onetime Attorney General, collector of McGuffey's Readers, ardent horseman, an eloquent, incisive writer who, when he dissents, dissents in vitriol; considered by corporation lawyers to be the most consistent of the justices...
...puffing a big cigar after many toasts, he let them in on his plans. He would continue to record, for the "benighted and tone-starved multitudes of the New World who lack the advantages of English musical culture." More important, he let them in on the anatomy of his vitriol: "There is something about a large gathering that brings out my basest instincts. Before a crowd of 1,000, I am malicious. Before 5,000, I am positively evil, and, facing a crowd of 10,000, I am compelled to say the most abominable things...
...jabberwock he is hunting, a college fraternity, last seen some years ago at Williams College, left a stain upon this editor's blotter which must be purged by vitriol . . . Hurling three columns of ketchup at the group which inferiorated him . . he retires from the field, having given space long filled by eminent philosophers and editors to a personal and trivial hurling of tomatoes in the essence...
...years his crosshatched, mild-&-mellow drawings, fussy and cluttered-up by modern standards, have all but vanished from Colonel Robert R. McCormick's isolationist, Anglophobic pages. McCutcheon's pen scratched its best when dipped in the milk of human kindness, and one-eyed Carey Orr's vitriol is more to the Colonel's taste. McCutcheon, in failing health, did not mind the eclipse; his kind of cartooning had brought him fun and fame, a Pulitzer Prize (1931) and a good living (around $50,000 a year...
Lightened by slap-stick, by shrewd characterizations in the vitriol of Sinclair Lewis, and by its background lampoon, "Over Twenty-One" is familiar war-time humor. It trips gaily and successfully along on the assumption that there's something to be laughed at anywhere, even--or especially--in a jumble of newspapers, Hollywood plays, Army manuals, bugle calls, and very confused people...