Word: sarcasms
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...minority report was voted on first. Senator Spencer undertook to defend it while the Democrats laid down a 'barrage of sarcasm. The vote was 42 for rejection and 28 for acceptance. The Democrats without exception voted for rejection. So also Farmer-Laborite Shipstead. The Republicans voted for acceptance with these exceptions: Insurgents Brookhart and Frazier (LaFollette and (Ladd being absent) ; semi-insurgents Norris and Norbeck who, as members of the committee, signed the majority report; Obstructionist Hiram Johnson; the Independents Couzens and Borah...
...delight and accomplishment is punning in phrases, giving a clever twist to another's epigram, or setting, in the midst of an immaculate sentence, some rich gem of slang. Occasionally his erudition waxes into windy verbosity, but not for long. Soon there will come a forthright shaft of sarcasm, or a quotation, such as Yeats' remark about George Moore: "What a pity Moore never had a love affair with a lady-always with women of his own class...
...Dave" Kirkwood, fiery Clydeside Laborite, stretched his index finger and pointed with scorn to the rash knight: "That," said he, "is a gentleman"; and there was no mistaking the grinding sarcasm...
...sort of picnic club that might appropriately subscribe to the Youth's Companion and pound rocks; but, as Mr. Kennedy explains, the sponsors of the movement intended no such thing. Since the Senior Picnic has been abolished it would be a great shame to institute another such custom. The sarcasm of our communicants was well taken...
Philip Snowden, the "ascetic, intellectual type of burning enthusiast," "a frail figure of a man who walks with a stick,"- "the man with a hatchet face and small burning eyes sunk deep beneath a projecting brow," the man whose caustic sarcasm has caused his opponents to wither, was known to be a Socialist. Only last Summer he introduced a bill to suppress the capitalist system (TIME, July 23). Small wonder, then, that Socialism was the thought uppermost in the minds of the assembled M.P.'s when Philip Snowden appeared on the Treasury Bench...