Word: acridity
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...debate on the election was along party lines. Mr. Cosgrave was the only nominee. Eamon De Valera insisted upon speaking Gaelic, which only 10% of the Dail understands; but his henchman, Sean Thomas O'Kelley, indulged in some acrid diatribes at the expense of Mr. Cosgrave and his followers, whom he dubbed renegade Irishmen ruling Ireland in the interests of Britain...
...Acrid Deputy Cachin, per contra, is under sentence for "in citing desertion." soldiers of the Republic to desertion." However, the it was only to the Moroccan war (TIME, May 11, War 1925, et from seq.) and not the World War from which M. Chachin exhorted soldiers to desert. So he too has been . . . allowed almost two years grace...
...glory. It occurred in that brief moment, when there was a nice balance between farm and factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned a new culture, based on the old ideas moulded afresh, by contact with forest...
...Saturday Evening Post-the village idiot. But Author Gorky's powers, however fully displayed here, have produced books that were far more readable than this one. The action and atmosphere of Decadence are typified in a single meteorological description from it: "During the daytime an opal cloud of acrid smoke rose in a column above the earth and at night the bald moon looked unpleasantly red, and the stars, shorn of their rays by the mist, loomed out like the heads of copper nails, while the water in the river reflected the troubled sky and gave one the impression...
...history. He is a man on the borderline of genius and insanity, not far (though far enough) removed from that type of creature that plagues editors and other public people with "nut" letters. He has passionate grievances, Tom o' Bedlam's honesty and a spilling store of acrid Americana to relate. Son of Puritans, he was raised among "that prairie tribe, conglomerate of Dutchman, Bohunk, Railroad Irish and Indiana Yankee" in Nebraska and Kansas...