Word: acerb
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alices were breaking their arms. Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle. Blonde Cinemactress Alice Faye, 32, fell into a sunken living room at a Los Angeles party and broke her right...
...quoted-and corrected-but Jim Fisk's complacent revision of it, substituting "nothing" for "all," does not appear. Kipling's "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke" is in its proper place (under Cigar, not Woman) but e. e. cummings' acerb switch ("For a bad cigar is a woman but a gland is only a gland") might well have been cited, too. Under the opinions about "men of mark" Mencken fails to mention Mark Twain's famous "Just that one omission alone[Jane Austen's books] would make...