Word: sarcasms
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...pill after each meal and four at bedtime. This dosage has cured colds in 75 out of 100 people, says Dr. Diehl. His cures include the 35 out of 100 who would recover from a cold with no treatment whatsoever. This high percentage of spontaneous cures excites him to sarcasm: "That is why it is possible to convince the public that practically any preparation is of value for the prevention or treatment of colds. In fact, some of the comments that were made by persons who had received only lactose [milk-sugar] tablets would serve admirably as testimonials concerning...
...This portrait of a Director of Athletics by the author of "Maguire, Builder of Men," is a bitingly sareastic caricature of that figure of the modern football world so familiar to the undergraduates who have brown to their estate in that era of Rackety-Rax athletics and sportsmanship. The sarcasm, however, never leads one to feel that truth has been sacrificed to the deed. "Eddie," of course, is a composite; his image is not applicable without qualification to all the Banghams of this world but it strikes close...
...largest investor in the largest rubber companies he had planned to bring peace to that warring industry. But. above all. this youngish man from Pugwash. Nova Scotia dreamed of a Midwest industrial empire, vast, powerful, autonomous. His holding company was appropriately Continental Shares, Inc. Without a trace of sarcasm Cleveland used to call him Cyrus the Great...
...world," the Disarmament Conference (TIME, Feb. 8, 1932 et seq.). Admittedly one of the world's greatest orators, Prime Minister MacDonald was never greater than last week. In his speech, which lasted an hour and 20 minutes, he ran the gamut from threats to wheedling, from sarcasm to good cheer-all with Scotch power and dignity...
...tone of complete scorn and sophisticated humor would be meaningless. To be sure, Mr. Lewis uses an imitation of Everybody's "langwidge," rich in "the missis" and "guys," and other expressions of the "Capone era," but his clever turns of phrase his pungent sarcasm are his own. It is to the intellectuals, to readers able to appreciate Lewis' habitual esoterica, that he writes, and his remarks to Mr. and Mrs. Everybody are biting, derisive...