Word: sarcasms
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...fact, though, we should like to know just what is the purpose of Mr. Cohen's letter. Several perusals of it have yielded no basis for a conclusion, except that it is a specimen of "mud-slinging" and a poor one at that. The statements couched in magnificent sarcasm, are ridiculous in their gross exaggeration, and for that reason it is needless to stoop to refute any of them...
...luncheon yesterday at the Union attended by over 100 members of the University, Norman Thomas, Socialist candidate for the Presidency bitterly attacked the Republican and Democratic parties as "the double-headed party of big business". With sharp sarcasm, keen wit, and scathing mockery he discussed the campaign, the issues at stake, and the candidates, from Republican to Liberal...
...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
...with the changing needs of a country fast deserting agrarianism for industrialism, Peel reconsidered. Suddenly in the summer of 1846 the crops failed, famine threatened. Peel declared for a Whig measure-repeal of the corn tariff-thus precipitating one of the bitterest battles of British politics. With devastating sarcasm, scintillating wit, and considerable treachery, Disraeli immortally flayed his chief as "a great parliamentary middleman . . . who bamboozles one party and plunders the other," and reviled him for having caught the Whigs bathing and stolen their clothes...
...which are essential and important that if he were not in the business, the economic progress of our country would suffer. It is an actual fact that this progress depends in no small measure upon Ford being in the field of production." Then, with what might have been either sarcasm or concern, he added that he was surprised at Henry Ford's statement that he [Mr. Ford] was 1,000,000 cars behind orders. Said Mr. Raskob: "I thought at the rate of 8,000** cars a day Ford would be caught up by this time...