Word: causticity
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...caustic with his tongue as with his typewriter, impatient, bellicose Ralph Coghlan was frequently at odds with staffers as well as with Pulitzer. He had also made the news columns of the P-D (and the opposition) in a way of which Pulitzer did not approve: he got involved in a drinking brawl. Last week the expected finally happened. After 25 years of writing editorials for the PD, 53-year-old Ralph Coghlan was transferred to Europe...
With their feminine players, the Idlers have a real gold mine. Very nicely decked out in some colorful Edwardian costumes, Connaught O'Connell and Lydia Hurd were properly biting and caustic as the staunch man-lover an man-loather, respectively. The Edith of Jane Johnson was reminiscent of Pamela Brown in "The Importance of Being Earnest," and Miss Johnson could hardly be paid a better compliment...
...been irritating churchmen, ruffling educators, cracking complacencies and smugness. A canon of the Episcopal Church, and onetime warden of New York's Episcopal St. Stephen's College (now Bard College), he calls himself a radical independent. As such, he has become one of the most caustic critics of the manners & morals of his day. There is scarcely a sector of U.S. civilization for which Bell has not tolled at least once...
Thomas Finletter, 55, a Philadelphia-born Wall Street lawyer (son and grandson of judges) with a trigger-quick mind, served as ECA's chief in Britain. Reticent, hardheaded and caustic-humored, Finletter has been called "the little acid drop." The British did not mind his sharpness. Said one appreciative Whitehaller, lifting his eyes to the ceiling: "If only all the people we had to deal with were like Finletter...
Justice came in the form of a caustic-soda bath. After some thought, restorers, under the direction of Florence's Professor Bruno Bearzi, dissolved the statue's lumpy green shell, showed the gilded bronze beneath. Last week San Ludovico stood on his pedestal again in a Manhattan gallery where visitors paid 60? a head to see the ten-foot figure blaze under spotlights in a black-velvet niche...