Word: causticity
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...Twangy, caustic Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner-in 1941 chief of the Navy war plans division, in 1942 the man who put the Marines ashore on Guadalcanal-put grey, heavy-jowled Admiral Kimmel at the very core of blame...
...Reparations Commissioner Edwin W. Pauley concluded that present Japanese capacity could be heavily cut and still remain larger than it was before Japan attacked China in 1931. He recommended a reduction in steel production to 2,500,000 tons and complete elimination of ball-bearing manufacture. He thought some caustic acid plants, solvay soda ash plants, and coal-burning electric generators could be picked up and removed from Japan...
...York Herald Tribune's caustic composer-critic Virgil Thomson went all out last week. He had just heard, he wrote, a voice "with a beauty that is unmatched among the sopranos of this country." The accolade went not to one of the seven singers making their debuts this season, but to bosomy Yugoslav Zinka Milanov, singing Donna Anna in Mozart's Don Giovanni for about the 20th time. Just five days earlier, another Trib critic had panned her. Wrote he: "[Her] decrease in avoirdupois [has] brought with it a disturbing lessening of her powers...
Undergraduates were less caustic. The Maroon student weekly, editorially conceeded that "the school along the Charles River still wields a schoolmarm's rod over the thoughts and actions of most American schoolmen" and crowed that "liberal education has unearthed an invaluable bedfellow...
...four-game series between the rowdy Pittsburgh Pirates and the noisy Brooklyn Dodgers. Umpire George Barr called Pirate Bob Elliott out at home, and got not-too-gently pushed for his pains. He promptly ordered Elliott out of the game. When Manager Frank (ex-"Fordham Flash") Frisch hurled a caustic comment from the bench, he too got the royal thumb. Elliott drew a $50 fine from National League president Ford Frick; Frisch was fined...