Word: sarcasms
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...following behind the Roosevelt-Garner ticket. Putting aside rancorous memories he referred several times to his old friend "Frank Roosevelt." He admitted he was not "satisfied" with the Chicago convention but argued that the "salvation of the country" now depended upon a Democratic victory. He pounded the Republicans with sarcasm, outlawed bigotry as an issue, again & again set off thunderous applause and cheering...
...where he lives, what he looks like. Over the whole political scene rests the gloom of hard times, with the electorate in no laughing mood. Affected by this atmosphere cartoonists are inclined to become draftsmen of despair, replacing good-natured fun with partisan bitterness, amusing irony with glum sarcasm...
Nearly perfect was a sarcasm uttered last week by ex-Viceroy of India Baron Irwin. Last year while Mr. Gandhi was in London, Lord Irwin was often called his "friend," interceded frequently with the Mahatma on behalf of His Majesty's Government. Last week correspondents told the tall baron that in Yerovda Jail near Bombay, small Mr. Gandhi had decided to begin "a fast unto Death." Reason: to protest against the Indian franchise system arbitrarily decreed by His Majesty's Government after the leading Indians consulted had withdrawn in a body from the Government's consultative committee...
Certainly His Majesty's Government has a head. Two days after Lord Irwin's memorable sarcasm the Government announced that Gandhi, who was not "imprisoned" but "detained during the pleasure of the Government" in Yerovda Jail, would be ousted and detained under guard in a house, if he should begin to fast. Thus, said a British spokesman "the question of forcible feeding would not arise...
...have heard many prominent Democrats in political speeches pay their respects to the President in exactly the same words which Governor Murray used in his Charlotte speech. I don't know that the speakers tried to convey the impression that they were the authors of this bit of sarcasm thrown at Mr. Hoover, but I can say that every time the expression was used it brought down the house...