Word: acridity
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...situation of two people stranded in a hick town has been done, effortlessly and good-humoredly, with excellent results as entertainment. If It's a Small World invites comparison with It Happened One Night it need concede priority only in the use of its general structure. Its acrid inconsequent mood is its own. Wendy Barrie's father, a King's Counsel named Jenkin, is a barrister in Hongkong where she was born. Her mother christened her Wendy. She naturally picked Barrie when she needed a stage name. She went to school in Switzerland and was having lunch...
...acrid controversy between Auditor Hurley and Howard Gill, superintendent of Norfolk Prison, has for the past two weeks been front page news in Boston newspapers; their attitude, and that of the political public, has been that this is an exciting, and a somewhat amusing, political battle of the usual pre-primary variety. A recent editorial in the Boston Herald even warned against allowing this quarrel to endanger the Norfolk system, implying that it should be relegated to the realm of pure politics. A Boston Post news story on the day of an extraordinary blast by Mr. Hurley concluded...
...apparent success. The harmlessness of BCG was violently challenged when 76 vaccinated German infants died of tuberculosis (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931). Although the courts found that negligence of hospital attaches was responsible and the League of Nations pronounced BCG harmless, it has not ceased to be the subject of acrid dispute...
...winter wind, painting the leaf and foliage dun and red, as age brings chrome and artificial scarlet to the cheeks of the decayed beauty. The skies are leaden, every rainy gust sweeps the skeleton branches cleaner, spreading on valley path and craggy niche a Turkey carpet. The airs, acrid with frost and aromatic from the sting of wood-smoke, freeze the new-pressed cider in the half-buried hogshead...
...thermometers at 91° during the final Conference session, many delegates preferred to sip long drinks at the bar downstairs, leaving their places empty. Those who sat and sweltered whispered jokes among themselves as leading Conference delegates read its swan songs. Depending on the swan, the song was either acrid, gloomy, polite or optimistic. Swans...