Word: cynically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Giggling Professor. When the New Deal rediscovered "monopolies" in 1937-38 and picked Thurman Arnold to go after them, the appointment was regarded by old-fashioned trustbusters of the Borah school as a rather bad joke. Arnold was a cynic, a word-juggler, a clown. With a background of Wyoming sheepherding, Princeton ('11) and Harvard Law ('14), he had returned from the war to help General Smedley Butler drive the prostitutes from New Orleans. Said he: "I didn't even make a dent in the town." His cynicism and love of low comedy were augmented back...
...father had always talked to him about the melting pot of golden opportunity that was America. But his father was a buoyant optimist of the 1890's and early 1900's, while Vag was inclined to think of himself as a hard-boiled post-war cynic. His was a practical America, a country of depressions and recessions and bonus armies, not a haven with free land for all and riches for the picking. But occasionally Vag's cynicism was subjected to disquieting qualms. He was particularly haunted by visions of a vitriolic figure with an extremely photogenic face who hopped...
...quality Vic Donahey has in fullest measure: political sensitivity. He always ran to win. Thus when he retired from public life "for a much-needed rest and the preservation of my health," every political cynic in the U. S. recalled his perfect health, unkindly footnoted: "Rest from what?" Consensus was: "Honest Vic" thinks Ohio is lost to the Democrats this fall, whether or not Franklin Roosevelt runs...
...cynic once defined a gift as a gesture made against better judgment in lively expectation of better treatment. Last week Japan offered foreign nations, especially the U. S., a gift of which she was pretty proud. There was a lively look in her eye as she gave...