Word: caustically
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bulls & a Bank Roll. While the final vote was overwhelming (223-113 in the House, a shouted voice vote in the Senate), the Congressmen acted only after hearing some caustic words about their own worth. The sharpest comments came from North Dakota's sharp old (76) Republican Representative Usher L. (for Loyd) Burdick, a lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books and a Congressman for 16 years.' In the first place, said Burdick, some of his colleagues were not being honest when they called their present salary $12,500 a year, and failed to mention their...
...that it might be a bad idea to revive the 15-year-old Philadelphia Story for TV. But on CBS's Best of Broadway, Actress McGuire made an excellent Tracy Lord, tawny and yare, as the script said she should be. To help her through the comic but caustic dilemma of casting off a new fiance (Dick Foran) and remarrying the one and only (John Payne), she had an engaging cast...
After the army deposed Vargas, in 1945, Café Filho re-entered politics, won a seat in the Chamber of Deputies, took up his old role of caustic, lone-wolf critic. He drew more fan mail than any other Deputy. Said Getulio Vargas, planning his own political comeback, "Café Filho is the most effective man in Congress. I wish he were on my side...
...motto ("Don't Let the Fellows Wear You Down) is perhaps less than delicate. But for that matter, so is the band. The niceties of nuance and proprieties of gentlemanly behavior are for more sedate organizations. Once, in a typically caustic vein at a typically ragged rehearsal, Holmes announced: "This has got to come to a screeching halt." He may well have expected the bandsmen to stop screeching, but as for a half, well, in spite of money troubles. Yale brickbats, and fatiguing greyhound bus trips,--the Sprit of the Harvard Bend Goes On and On.MALCOLM H. HOLMES...
...Follansbee's steelmaking plants, warehouses and inventories, continue to operate the company. Follansbee's corporate shell (with $9,000,000 in the till and no plants) will then merge with two profitable Murchison firms: Chicago's Consumers Co. (concrete) and Frontier Chemical Co. (chlorine, caustic soda) of Wichita, Kans. Follansbee stockholders, whose stock will be worth $20 a share after selling their plants, may exchange it for stock in the new merged Murchison corporation...