Word: causticity
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...Grant and Miss Smith, credit them with not wincing once while mouthing dialogue that would choke Mr. Arbuthnot. Also in the hapless cast are caustic Monty Wooley and warbling Ginny Simms, both of whom work hard and reasonably effectively throughout the film...
Westbrook Pegler found a friend. The name was Petrillo-James Caesar Petrillo, boss of U.S. musicians. Last week Hearst readers rubbed their eyes as Peg, the usually caustic carp of organized labor, was caught cheering a strike...
...cool, rural peace of Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains last week some 500 labor union delegates and labor economists listened thoughtfully to two men whom most unionists regard as caustic critics...
Then she fired up the stove, crammed Faustina into several kettles (with "my formula of 10 Ibs. of caustic soda, alum and resin") and boiled them 24 hours. From this she made soap and candles. She ground the bones into flour and made cookies for her other clients. In the same way she murdered a 53-year-old widow (3,000 lire), then a 60-year-old retired soprano, Virginia Cacioppo, said to have sung Butterfly once at La Scala. The diva yielded 50,000 lire and assorted diamonds and rubies, as well as soap and candles...
...this, the Senate listened in silence. Next day Minnesota's Republican Joseph H. Ball had a caustic reply: the Pepper speech was right down the Communist line...