Word: caustically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some U.S. churches, Jesus Christ is constantly being made over in the image of Dale Carnegie. Sinclair Lewis took a caustic look at this kind of anthropomorphism in Elmer Gantry, his 1927 satirical novel about the ministry. Lewis enraged the righteous but he made few people apprehensive about the state of the clergy: his pen was too vicious, his view too obviously jaundiced...
...Cinderella, Wendy Mackenzie does not dominate the stage, but her natural freshness and simplicity pervade the whole performance. Her dancing is light and graceful; even when she is downtrodden, she is never bedraggled. Miss Goldsmith's caustic voice is most appropriate for her rendition of the older sister. The younger sister, Miss Shoop, is somewhat less successful with her mouth hanging open all the time, although this seems more a matter of the director's misconception than Miss Shoop's perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon...
...scores of other nooks and crannies of Government, less dramatic ways have been found to eliminate competition with private business. The Defense Department has shut down 24 scrap-metal operations, seven bakeries, nine laundries, a chain factory, a caustic-soda plant, four cement-mixing plants, a tire-retreading plant, two garden nurseries and four ice plants. The Navy, which has been manufacturing uniforms for years, has closed its clothing factory. It is bringing in more private yards to overhaul its ships, has boosted such contracts from $34 million in 1953 to $82 million in fiscal...
Vacationing in Pinehurst, N.C., Britain's roving Lady Astor was entertained at the local country club by the city's foremost winter residents, General of the Army George Catlett Marshall and his wife Katherine. Ordinarily one of America's most caustic critics, Virginia-born Nancy Astor was on her best behavior, kept her temper during her frequent rounds of golf (handicap: 20), purred just like any sweet old (65) lady. Sample: "I've never known so many nice people as you've got here...
...vast popularity in the country and the immense Philippine good will towards the U.S. is often not reflected in Congress, where shrewd politicians in Magsaysay's own Nacionalista Party often succeed in putting a brake on him. Chief among them is Senator Claro Recto, 65, a brilliant, caustic lawyer who has never forgotten or forgiven the U.S. for his being put in prison at World War II's end by Douglas Mac-Arthur (Recto served as Foreign Minister under the Japanese occupation...