Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year as an arbiter of high, low and middle brows. In Snobs, Arbiter Lynes patters along in Thackeray's large footsteps, rather like a shrill but amiable terrier at the end of a 100-year leash. His bark is sure to get plenty of attention, and his bite, though not very sharp, may even penetrate a few skins...
...Waugh is one of the finest prose stylists writing today. He is a master stery-teller--"Helena" does not lag, even without a real plot. He has a delicate touch in recording the Inanities (and worse) of civilization. But "Helena" lacks the religiousness of a religious story, and the bite of a proper satire. What remains is mere teeth...
...delicate, shifting parentheses. Being no great shakes as a colorist, he avoided strong hues, tinted his figures with light dabs of pearly paint. No other artist, except Lautrec, ever mixed sweetness and sordidness more successfully. What kept Pascin out of Lautrec's league was that he had no bite; his paintings were pale and flaccid as the man himself...
...chalked up yearly earnings of $656 million, the biggest in U.S. industrial history, surpassed last year's total in the first nine months alone. But the higher corporate taxes (42% v. 1949's 38%), which were retroactive to Jan.' i, took such a big bite (roughly $50 million) that G.M.'s third-quarter net of $217 million was below the second quarter. G.M. set another record: its $605 million tax set-aside for the first nine months of 1950 was the biggest tax bill in corporate history, and more than the total profits of the entire...
...Heavy Toll. Reuther was exaggerating-as is sometimes his wont. But the new credit restrictions, plus the new tax bite, were taking a heavy toll in other businesses besides autos. The prices of new houses, which were removed from the easy credit field at the same time as autos, were not yet dropping, but sales were down...