Word: sarcasm
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...more than one occasion Winston Churchill has paid his derisive respects to the strategy of "Corporal Hitler" by listing it among the Allies' greatest assets. Addressing the House of Commons last week, the Prime Minister soberly refrained from any such sarcasm-for, whatever the reason for Hitler's eclipse, his meddling and whimsical hand was no longer in evidence on the western front...
...cheering lasted ten minutes, as the President's car entered the stadium, half-circled the field, then drove up on a ramp. Microphones were set up on the tonneau, and the President spoke from his car. Again he opened with sarcasm: "This is the strangest campaign I have ever seen. I have listened to various Republican orators . . . and what do they say? 'Those incompetent blunderers and bunglers in Washington have passed a lot of excellent laws about social security and labor and farm relief and soil conservation. . . . Those same quarrelsome, tired old men, they have built the greatest...
...Dewey could not compete with the Champ when it came to sustained sarcasm; but he threw one sudden and effective sarcastic punch, when he announced that Franklin Roosevelt was indispensable : "He is indispensable to Harry Hopkins, Madame Perkins, Harold Ickes . . . the Mayor of Jersey City . . . to Sidney Hillman . . . and to Earl Browder...
This week Commissioner Moses drew a learned rebuttal from Harvard University's Professor of Architecture Joseph Hudnut. In the New York Times, with measured sarcasm, 58-year-old, Harvard-trained Professor Hudnut made "A-'Long-Haired' Reply to Moses." Excerpts...
Well, not venom perhaps-call it a subtle sarcasm...