Word: acridity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acrid commentary and allusion which flows from the narrow lips of a prize fighter's manager reflects most of the merriment. This manager and his deplorably dense lightweight are abruptly added to the menial quota of a haughty home on Fifth Avenue. They fall in love with others of the servants; they stir up a resounding second-act fight that would do credit to any picture play; they win the love match and the lightweight championship of the world...
...chemical warriors of the U. S. Chemical Warfare Service-Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Vedder and Captain Harold P. Sawyer-reported that they had met with great success administering chlorine gas as treatment for respiratory diseases, there was general rejoicing. It was hoped that properly regulated whiffing of pungent, biting, acrid, yellowish fumes of nascent chlorine might one day rid man of all his breathing diseases, from plain "sniffles" on up through asthma and whooping cough to consumption. But such hope was dampened, last week, by a report from Dr. Louis I. Harris of the Health Department of New York City...
...seems entirely probable that he will shoot her again in a week or two. As his aim grows progressively better with prac tice, he will no doubt succeed in killing her off before the year is out. Katherine Cornell gave to the part of the shallow, feline wife an acrid brilliance that justified in part the so-called entertainment. A most doggedly unpleasant wife, yet somehow crookedly alluring, she made the author's thesis possible if not plausible. When she was on the stage, streaks of gleaming silver showed through the leaden surface of the play. Alexander Woollcott-"Miss...
...some bitter editorial writer or acrid political economist who penned these words? So it would seem. Not so. This was a paid advertisement, published by one of the large banks of Manhattan ? the Harriman National Bank...
...twilight incredible beasts wage their truceless wars and come down by night to drink from the river-pools under the swinging constellations of the Cross- constellations that see, here and there, man's fugitive campfires, how dwarfed in that illimitable waste! Reading, one can almost detect an odor, acrid, animal, exciting -the smell of Africa...