Word: sarcasms
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...spared no footnotes, and his conclusions are supported not by one casual quotation, but by pages of them. Despite these necessary appendages to a thorough work of scholarship, he has written no dull government text. "Under the Axe of Fascism" has just enough unrelenting prejudice, just enough biting sarcasm to give the books a lively, absorbing interest without distorting facts or disturbing its value...
...some 100 Deputies who now not only follow him in the Chamber but even ape him. When he claps his hands they all clap their hands; when he is amused they are all amused ; when Léon Blum stalks to the tribune to hurl tor rents of sarcasm and scathing innuendo at the Cabinet - any Cabinet - they are all ecstatic, then uproarious with cheers. Temperamentally a destructive critic, Socialist Blum, who has refused numerous invitations to enter the French Cabinet of the moment, is credited with having been indispensable to bringing about the fall of several of his country...
...many writers of today are going bitter on us," continued the poet. "I am shocked at the amount of really vitriolic, filthy sarcasm which is published today: I'm glad I have enough oil in my feathers to disregard it! Much of it, I feel, comes from the sense of personal frustration and tragedy which accompanies the feeling that one has 'sold out' to the forces of materialism which keep prodding an author to 'produce.' Many writers yield to the publishers' request for a second book to meet the demand caused by the popularity of a successful first attempt...
...late Adolph Ochs, now published by Ochs' Nephew Julius Ochs Adler. Last week Nephew Adler plucked Julian Harris, 61, from the Constitution, made him executive editor of the Chattanooga Times, a lively paper in a lively newspaper country. In subordinate jobs Harris' bitter temper and sarcasm have often hurt him but on the Chattanooga Times Harris was told that he would be Boss...
...decree, intelligent Argentines were left gasping in amazement. The highly literate and weighty newsorgans La Prensa and La Nation, models of Latin journalism and traditional adversaries on almost every issue, united for once and for three days printed editorials hurling against President Justo every weapon of argument, deprecation, criticism, sarcasm, invective and ridicule. They added that the decree flatly violates the Argentine Constitution's pledge of freedom of the press...