Word: acridity
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...advertisements for a cigar which is, in appearance, somewhat squat, in odor, somewhat acrid, has been pictured a face known to all lovers of loud music-the face of John Philip Sousa. The famed bandmaster was depicted gazing in tender contemplation at the squat object or, with a presumably acristogy inserted between his crisp military mustache and his neat professional Van dyke, enjoying a happy solace while he listened, rapt, to some exalted strain. Last week Lieut. Commander Sousa began a Supreme Court action to re cover $100,000 damages from the P. Lorillard Co., which had thus, without...
...lands were "annexed" by Georgia in 1828. In vain they appealed to President Jackson. He told them to submit to Georgia or get out across the Mississippi. When the now sacred Chief Justice Marshall, in an elaborate opinion, declared that Georgia had no jurisdiction in the Cherokee territory, the acrid old President frostily remarked: "John Marshall has made his decision; now let him enforce it!'' At last, in 1835, the Cherokees did cross the big river, some in peace, some sword-pricked; and consoled themselves with $5,000,000. John Marshall's theory of "domestic dependent" nations...
...herself back to her girlhood stifled by her mother-living again the romance of the Spanish-American War, learning not to cramp her own daughter's style of loving. Lewis Beach's stage play, The Square Peg, here transferred to the screen, has had some of the acrid tang carefully sponged out of it. But enough remains to vitalize this study of the ironbound mother determined to be good to her family, let the chips fall where they...
...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...