Word: causticity
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...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...
...Sugar & Caustic. Fifteen years in the industry have honed Bill Cullen to the supersharpness required of a good M.C. His patter is sometimes irrelevant, but it is always fast; his smile gleams as brightly as the lens of his eyeglasses; and, whatever else may happen, he is never speechless. In making his way up to a top network job, 34-year-old Bill Cullen has closely analyzed his profession and decided that there are three kinds of masters of ceremonies: "There's the Drooler, who sugars out 'God bless you and that sort of stuff; there...
...Wise sticks to its farcical panel show and Sim's fumblings, the film displays the flimsy plot of James Birdie's play, It Depends What You Mean, to best advantage. Moreover, it brings to the screen such engaging people as Martita Hunt, an English dowager, and Roland Culver, the caustic artist. But coupled with these unlikely characters are supposedly real people, a secretary and her beau, who want to know what marriage really means...
...phenomenal growth since the end of World War II. Olin branched out from shotgun shells, dynamite and rifles into batteries, Cellophane, fabricating metals, lumber, brass, creosoting, cigarette paper, polyethylene food bags and compressed-air coal-breaking equipment. When Nichols took it over in 1948 Mathieson was making caustic soda, liquid chlorine, nitrogen and soda ash. Nichols expanded into fertilizer, sulphuric acid, petrochemicals, insecticides and-by buying out E. R. Squibb & Sons-into drugs and Pharmaceuticals. Says John Olin confidently: "We will continue to grow...