Word: causticity
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...Charles Lindbergh's ambiguous call for "new policies and a new leadership," caustic Columnist WestbrookPegler wrote: "We can't adopt new policies without a change of leadership and ... we can't repudiate the elected leadership of Franklin D. Roosevelt . . . without repudiating the people, and I should like to know how Lindbergh purposes to go about that...
...association, NPA gives such men as OPM's Deputy Production Director William L. Batt, Labor Bureau Statistician and Machine-Tool Expert A. Ford Hinrichs, the Federal Reserve Board's (and Harvard's) Alvin Hansen a chance to get together, pool ideas. Published last week was a caustic NPA summary of what was talked about and concluded at a recent session...
Famed for parkways and playgrounds, tempers and tirades, is New York City's able Park Commissioner Robert Moses. This week, Park Commissioner Moses, an ex officio member of the boards of all the museums in New York's public parks, sent a report, characteristically caustic and cogent, to Mayor LaGuardia on the present state of the city's museums. Sample criticisms...
Scuttling along the street to visit caustic, mountain-maiming old Sculptor Gutzon Borglum in the Chicago hospital to which he had retired to treat a minor ailment, his wife slipped on the icy concrete, fractured her arm, joined her famed husband in the hospital...
...Bohemian doctor brought one of his countrymen to Dr. Carlson's laboratory. Fred Vlcek, now known to medical school freshmen as "Mr. V.," was a barber who as a child had accidentally swallowed strong caustic soda solution. The soda burned his esophagus, and the scar tissue which formed there permanently closed it, so that no food could pass to his stomach. Surgeons had made a neat little hole in his stomach wall, inserted a rubber tube. Mr. V.'s method of eating was necessarily messy: he would first chew his food to enjoy the flavor, then spit...