Word: acidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...
...Commissioner Edwin W. Pauley concluded that present Japanese capacity could be heavily cut and still remain larger than it was before Japan attacked China in 1931. He recommended a reduction in steel production to 2,500,000 tons and complete elimination of ball-bearing manufacture. He thought some caustic acid plants, solvay soda ash plants, and coal-burning electric generators could be picked up and removed from Japan...
Results are sometimes as good-but rarely so dramatic-on the conventional Sippy diet of milk, cream, bland and gooey foods and acid-neutralizing powders. But the Sippy diet does not do much for blood protein. Both diets, being extreme, have a good psychological effect on ulcer patients, which doctors think is one of the most important factors in treatment. Simple proof: ulcer patients, generally a moody, brooding lot, have shown marked improvement after inoculations with distilled water...
...girl into a half-hysterical bundle of nerves. She became morbidly religious, wore spiked necklaces to mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...
...second prize went to beefy George Grosz for his The Survivor, a carefully painted war nightmare. Grosz, whose acid commentaries on World War I, and the social evils which followed in Germany, earned him international fame and the hatred of the Nazis, became a U.S. citizen in 1938, settled down in Douglas Manor, N.Y. to paint heavily larded nudes and Cape Cod sand dunes. When his old fears and disgusts overtake him, he is still a frightening artist...