Word: sarcasms
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...talk more peace and more war with his ambiguous Fascist partner. For Germany the Russian victory looked fine. Her Swedish iron ore was safe. Her northern flank was shielded. Her prestige was generally conceded upped. Russia was now free. The Allies and their unfulfilled promises were fair bait for sarcasm...
...York City's Police Commissioner Lewis Valentine. Commissioner Valentine asked: "Why do so many members of the force, when serving a summons, act as though the violation were a personal affront? The violator does not offend you, so why cuss them and bawl them out? I always avoid sarcasm because I always resented it when I was a patrolman and a superior officer directed...
...famed Handels-Och Sjöfartstidning (Trade and Shipping Gazette). So proud of its liberal tradition is the Gazette that it has been called Sweden's Manchester Guardian. Segerstedt's column, I Dag (Today), is masterful journalism. He has a rare faculty for clothing deadly sarcasm (about Hitler, Stalin, various native enemies of democracy) in words so innocent that even Minister Westman cannot dub them "offensive." Sample: "What cannot be hidden is the opinion the Swedish people have of the powers which are struggling to dominate them. . . . They cannot be made to believe that we must huddle together...
When Mr. Chamberlain rose to answer that evening, he was obviously angry and shaken. His thin face, seldom giving an impression of vitality, was ashen and his voice was husky and low. With heavy sarcasm he wondered that Mr. Churchill dared let Parliament adjourn for even two weeks...
Public utilities were an avenue into which private capital could flow, he said. Now that the TVA fight was over, this avenue was open again. Not without sarcasm, but still reassuringly, Harry Hopkins added: "There has been no indication that government wishes to own and operate all the utilities of this country...