Word: causticity
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...violation of Swedish neutrality (TIME, Jan 22). Sweden was growing tired of pussyfooting when Sweden's discarded Foreign Minister Rickard J. Sandler rose up in the Riksdag to give that usually placid body its biggest political sensation in many a year. In a speech studded with such caustic remarks as "This neutrality is idiocy," he declared: "The meeting last October of four heads of Northern States, with its fascinating display of Nordic solidarity, was only a grandiose and beautiful screen behind which the practical cooperation that was the urgent need of the hour has been quietly torpedoed...
...Hapgood's fellow travelers the one who comes off best is, curiously enough, Mabel Dodge Luhan. He admits that she is sometimes caustic, callous, rude, jealous, possessive, vindictive, and worse. But he knows that these traits stem from her "eager love of 'It'-the infinite-with which she wants to be naturally, strongly, connected. She wants to repose quietly and physically on the bosom of God." That Hutchins "Hapgood can understand...
...pair of Washington newspapermen has made the Justices of the U. S. Supreme Court more uncomfortable than able, caustic Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. Their Nine Old Men was a best seller of 1936. Their Washington Merry-Go-Round, political gossip column, rarely misses a chance to plant a tack on a Justice's padded chair. But last week it was the Court's turn to make Pearson and Allen uncomfortable, and they did a thoroughgoing...
...picturesque happening, such as the visit of a temperance delegation, "looking blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from his subordinates and to fear impossibilities from the enemy...
From vast, subterranean Michigan streams Dow Chemical Co. pumps brackish water, produces aspirin, phenol, ammonia, chlorine. From the vast Pacific, Great Western Electro-Chemical Co. dredges salt, manufactures liquid chlorine, caustic soda, caustic potash. In a corporate chemical reaction last month these two companies decided to combine. Last week their stockholders approved the process. Catalyst of the consolidation was Willard Henry Dow, elder son of the late, great Chemist Herbert Henry Dow. No chemical genius but an efficient business executive, Willard Dow graduated from University of Michigan in 1919, went to work for his father as a department head, succeeded...