Word: sarcasms
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...would learn would be the shrewd formula by which promotion-wise Larry Spivak has lifted the Mercury to 95,000 circulation, from the 33,000 to which it had sunk when Editor H. L. Mencken wearily stepped out in 1933. It had long since lost all the sudsy sarcasm it had under Mencken, was now an excitable cross between Reader's Digest and an exposé sheet. The Spivak formula: find a man with a promising cause, and exploit them both. Sample "discoveries...
...about time that you put a stop to the . . . odoriferous flatulence of the monomaniacal person who does your purported music criticism? It does not seem just and fair to permit a crank to vent this malignity time after time, especially concerning a subject which does not allow levity. Sarcasm, or the caprice of an ignorant and petulant fool. If your paper is governed by principles of decency and good writing, certainly there is no room for the sort of thing that we find in the most recent Music...
Alibi. In ensuing hours of cross-examination he was never trapped into contradiction. Yamashita simply waited, without anger, through the prosecutor's periods of elaborate sarcasm, then licked his lips and answered in unhesitant Japanese...
...quantity of his wife's household goods, the funds of his National Socialist League and a Manchester show girl. During the sad days of Dunkirk and Norway, the horrors of the blitz and the better days that followed, Britons listened with amusement to Joyce's silken sarcasm and twisted truth on the German radio. They often noted his plea: "To some I may seem a traitor, but hear...
...recording was stopped. Another (a 1942 speech) was put on. There were the same old phrases, the same bombast, the same guttural sarcasm. There could be little doubt. Delivery, syllabic emphasis and sentence build-up harmonized perfectly. There was only one difference: Hitler's 1945 voice lacked the fire of three years ago, but the fury remained...