Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Italy. He knew Henry James in the days when that sensitive young man was trying to recover from the shock of calling on De Maupassant and finding him, not unaccompanied, in bed. He was a friend of Whistler, whose charm had an immense influence upon him and whose acid humor was not unlike his own. He drank wine with Andrew Lang; he knew Edmund Gosse and F. Hopkinson Smith, "whose books," he said of the latter, "I never could stand?or the sight of him either." Then he came back to America and began work on the etchings of forges...
When they finished reading the editorial, the mouths of the friends of the Tribune wore an acid expression that could not possibly have been caused by their breakfast eggs. They were thinking again of the schoolboy?of how he says, "Yes, I'm sorry, teacher. Naw, teacher, I'll never do it again," while at that very moment he is displaying, to the tittering class behind him, a pair of crossed fingers. "Is that," the friends of the Tribune wanted to know, "an apology...
...dash events will Miller and Burns entered against the same galaxy of stars listed in New York, and their ability will meet another acid test. Luttman has been entered in the Hunter mile, but it is possible that Coach Farrell will save him for the relay...
Nicholas. Despatches reported that the entire staff of the Leningrad newspaper Krasnya were clapped into jail last week as accomplices in the publication of an article wherein the present Soviet Ambassador to Poland, M. Wykoff, is specifically charged with having poured quantities of sulphuric acid over the corpses of Tsar Nicholas II and his immediate family, after they had been shot dead at Ekatemburg, Russia, by Commandant Yurovski, former Tsarist officer...
...good Communist. ... I wanted people to know that the Tsar is really dead, because of the spread of a false rumor that Lord Kitchener smuggled him to a Buddhist monastery in Tibet. ... I want everyone to know that Comrade Wykoff annihilated the last vestige of the Tsar with sulphuric acid...