Word: sarcasm
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Democratic lists threw final nominations over into the runoff. Thomas Pryor Gore, blind onetime (1907-21) Senator, sought his old seat "to see if a man can still be elected to the Senate on $1,000." Without money or managers but with a tongue slick with political sarcasm, he ran nip & tuck with Charles J. Wrightsman, wealthy Tulsa oilman, for the Democratic Senatorial nomination, while three onetime Oklahoma Governors trailed in the ruck...
...know President Hoover. His methods are unspectacular; his purposes are inflexible. As a result he is misunderstood. During the last winter the Senate has taken the applause and the President has had the boos. The mud slingers, sarcasm manufacturers and editorial croakers have had an inning. But the President has not permitted himself to be deflected...
Author Parker has a way with her; her way is caustic, penetrating, deflating. Her sarcasm, often restrained, is always present, usually evident. Laments for the Living is a collection of 13 short stories, dialogs, monologs in her best, most caustic manner...
...opinion of L'Oeuvre the "goodness" of notre bon vin should be proved to Dry U. S citizens on every possible occasion, especially by the French Ambassador, yet M. Claudel has the reputation of serving less than any of his predecessors. Sneered L'Oeuvre with pointed sarcasm: "Of course it is not the business of an Ambassador to go around saying nasty things about the nation to which he is accredited. But . . . etc. . . . etc." In short, M. Claudel should say nice things about French things...
...year President Henry Hastings Curran, onetime (1923-1926) Immigration Commissioner at the Port of New York, onetime (1921) Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City. As the Lobby Committee is four-to-one Dry, it inquired into all the Association's doings, until lobbying was almost forgotten. Sarcasm, sneers, low comedy, abusive epithets and verbal horseplay featured the Committee's august deliberations...