Word: causticity
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...Debt. Thirty years before, Winston Churchill, made the scapegoat for the bungling of his Gallipoli expedition plan, had been heaved out of the Admiralty. In the darkest hour of his defeat he received an unexpected visit from a caustic critic. Lord Kitchener. Said "K. of K."; "There's one thing they can't take away from you-the Fleet was ready...
...example, in New Jersey by Apiarist Henry Brown. Because Brown's bees (like Feedham's) have stingers, but fail to use them through indolence or good nature, apiarists do not recognize them as stingless. A truly stingless bee (which protects itself by spitting a caustic, skin-burning liquid) is the Genus Trigona of Central America, which produces a watery, vile-tasting "honey...
Died. Frank R. Reid, 65, onetime Congressman from Illinois (1923 to 1934), vigorous but unsuccessful defender of the late Brigadier General William ("Billy") Mitchell in the famed 1925 court-martial over General Mitchell's caustic criticism of the Army & Navy for a piddling aviation program; of a heart attack; in Aurora...
Most Manhattan papers brushed off last week's awarding of the American Horse Shows Association's annual medal to Lois Lisanti as horsewoman of the year. But caustic Dan Parker, Daily Mirror sport columnist, whose pet targets are boxers, wrestlers and race-trackers, found it worth 1,200 words. Wrote Columnist Parker...
Died. George Higgins Moses, 75, caustic, critical Republican Senator (1918 to 1933) from New Hampshire; of coronary thrombosis; in Concord, N.H. A Greek and Latin scholar, thin-lipped, Maine-born Senator Moses specialized in the crushing word. Sample phrases: "sons of the wild jackass" (insurgent Western Senators); "four more years of diminuendo" (on the re-election of Calvin Coolidge). Buried by the 1932 Democratic landslide, he remained thereafter, in his own phrase, "only a nuisance value to the Republican Party...