Word: sarcasms
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...than the two-thirds required to invoke cloture and end the filibuster, but the filibuster nevertheless went on. Alert Walter White made increasingly anxious trips downstairs to confer with Senators in the reception room. One of his departures from the gallery was noted by Jimmy Byrnes with sotto voce sarcasm: "Barkley can't do anything without talking to that nigger first...
...master in an English boarding school. The title character is the sort of person who flogs his charges for the sake of discipline, and then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then the old sentimental story of ordered bachelorhood...
...Well," he breathed a sigh, "it is wonderful to have you two to entertain for the weekend." He prayed that he had struck the note of sarcasm off-key. "I suppose you're both keyed up for the game and ready to burst your lungs rooting for Harvard." Dimly he remembered hearing his mother say that Uncle Henry graduated from Harvard in 1897; he also thought that something similar had once been said about Cousin Arthur. So the explosion from Cousin Arthur left him gasping. "Hmph!" he lit the fuse. "For a Yale man to root for Harvard would...
Doing a far better oratorical job than Landon had done the week before, he drew applause from his audience by promising that he wanted no public office for himself in 1940. Attacking the New Deal with the sarcasm that began to appear in his public utterances after he left the White House, he spoke of "balanced abundance" that "seems to recall the trapeze." Of the Liberalism of the New Deal he remarked: "Its folds can apparently even be entered through the Ku Klux Klan. . . . When you deal with other people's money, the word is conservative, not liberal, especially...
Although Langer felt "thoroughly deflated by the genial sarcasm of my colleague", he proceeded to give a summary of European affairs high-spotted by minimizing the importance of the new Rome-Berlin axis...