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Author Parker has a way with her; her way is caustic, penetrating, deflating. Her sarcasm, often restrained, is always present, usually evident. Laments for the Living is a collection of 13 short stories, dialogs, monologs in her best, most caustic manner...
...opinion of L'Oeuvre the "goodness" of notre bon vin should be proved to Dry U. S citizens on every possible occasion, especially by the French Ambassador, yet M. Claudel has the reputation of serving less than any of his predecessors. Sneered L'Oeuvre with pointed sarcasm: "Of course it is not the business of an Ambassador to go around saying nasty things about the nation to which he is accredited. But . . . etc. . . . etc." In short, M. Claudel should say nice things about French things...
...year President Henry Hastings Curran, onetime (1923-1926) Immigration Commissioner at the Port of New York, onetime (1921) Republican candidate for Mayor of New York City. As the Lobby Committee is four-to-one Dry, it inquired into all the Association's doings, until lobbying was almost forgotten. Sarcasm, sneers, low comedy, abusive epithets and verbal horseplay featured the Committee's august deliberations...
...ingredients of a typical New England boiled dinner, throughout the Cherry Sisters appearance. In every town that the Cherry Sisters played, it was an invariable custom for the editor of the local paper to review their act with a column and a half of humor, satire, parody and biting sarcasm...
...only two real objections to this magnificent scheme," said Mr. Lloyd George with concentrated sarcasm. "One is that the Dominions will never grant free trade to each other or to England; and the other is that Englishmen will never undertake the erection of a tariff wall against the rest of the world. Otherwise I think the scheme is all right." Two days later in Canberra, Australia, the Dominion Prime Minister, blunt Laborite James Henry Scullin practically echoed the Welshman. "There is no hope," said he, "of getting Australia to agree to allow the goods of every other part...