Word: causticity
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...most of the convening cabbies retained their caustic composure. When elderly Bill Cox told them that their powerful Transport and General Workers' Union frowned on sectional representation because it already had 16 members in Parliament, the cabbies overrode him, voted to go ahead. Grunted Spokesman Ted Morland of Fulham: "It's abaht time our ruddy trade got a look in. I wouldn't mind getting on me hind legs meself and telling ol' Winnie wot he ought to do abaht...
...stories in her 1944 collection (mostly written by relatively unknown authors) rate pretty high on common sense, low on imagination and passion. Most impressive: Of This Time, of That Place, by Biographer-Critic Lionel Trilling (Matthew Arnold; E. M. Forster), a Columbia University English instructor. Author Trilling's caustic, moving account of the clash between a kindly but red-taped professor and a brilliant but irrational student is calculated to make almost any pedagogue squirm...
...real name is still a secret (to protect his family from the Nazis). Quick-tempered, a stickler for efficiency, the General has no patience with fumbling aides. Last week, on the road to Paris, his nerves jumped raggedly.. At a press conference he parried all questions with caustic comments...
...Army Ground Forces, Lieut. General Lesley James McNair had whipped millions of civilians into the greatest Army in the nation's history. A skeptical, gently dour little professional, "Whitey" McNair had done it without raising his voice, and with rare recourse to his considerable vocabulary of caustic profanity...
...aptitude test was hard. "I didn't do anything flashy," she said, "but I guess I got by." After the three hours' grilling in the boiler-room temperature of Cobb Hall, Sunny's slightly hennaed hair was still schoolgirlishly neat, but her academic comment was caustic. "I can't understand," she said, "why the University of Chicago gives tests like this. They're poorly made up, if you know what I mean, and I don't think they show what kind of a mind you have, though I guess that's what they...