Word: sarcasms
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...Designers of America, bigheaded Bachelor Lucius Beebe, most painstaking dude of Manhattan chit-chatterers, declared: "Almost every man has either secretly or patently some feeling for clothes and would indulge his fancy far more lavishly and colorfully were it not for the jealousy, usually expressed in the form of sarcasm, by the women he encounters. ... No woman can stand seeing a man as well or painstakingly dressed as herself...
With a combination of nostalgia and sarcasm, he recalls the good old days when "we had 'fight talks' before every game and between the halves. We were pumped full of it, till we were ready to go out and die for dear old alma mater...
...strange lands. They weren't just fairy tales; they were satire--bitter, clever, biting, calculated ridicule of the life and society of eighteenth century England. Written in beautifully flowing, powerful, yet childishly simple language, they are considered perhaps the best satires in English. It is indeed a cruel sarcasm--and society's revenge on the author--that his best works should now be beloved only of children who read vacantly, failing to comprehend the purpose of the writings...
...began Franklin Roosevelt last week in one more of his unfailingly intimate, persuasive radio heart-to-hearts with the nation. The sarcasm of his opening crack was a key to his mood. A second key, politics, was in his fifth sentence: "As part of the democratic process, your President is again taking an opportunity to report ... to the real rulers of this country-the voting public...
...looks as though they have met their match when one ruthlessly honest governess gives them as good as she gets; but when she herself catches the Ponsonby family disease of dishonesty, all attempts at family betterment end. Only hopeful one left is the eleven-year-old daughter, who sheds sarcasm as a duck sheds water, thinks Ponsonby malice and Ponsonby messes are awfully funny...