Word: causticity
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...Hicks diatribe, entitled "A Letter to Robert Hillyer," referred specifically to Hillyer's recent book of poetry, addressed in the same manner to Robert Frost. In a full page of caustic verse Hicks belittled the poet on both personal and professional grounds. Some extracts from "A Letter to Robert Hillyer' are below...
...actually drafts the Congress' masterpieces of unintelligible taxation is the legislative counsel to the House of Representatives, Middleton Beaman. A shy, caustic genius, he has spent two decades trying to keep one jump ahead of the collective brains of the nation's ablest tax lawyers. Between Drafter Beaman and the lay members of the inner circle stands another wizard. Tax Expert Lovell H. Parker, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation. Wizard Parker has the all important job of calculating how much revenue a tax will yield, whom it will affect and how. Great...
...transit gloria mundi," or so is the bubble of the Cambridge collegian pricked by the witty caustic observer from Smith who next chooses Yale as the place and the Yale man as the subject...
...Cryolite was used only in making caustic soda, sodium bicarbonate and alum. But "Salt" presently learned that it formed an excellent flux for manufacturing opaque glass and for coating enamelware, tile and porcelain. Best of all it turned out to be a valuable ingredient for aluminum. Rocketing aluminum sales and war scares lately have boomed the cryolite trade. '"Salt" maintains its monopoly with ease since the mines discovered by the Eskimos at Ivigtut, Greenland, remain the only ones in the world. Because the mining season is necessarily short, "Salt" usually gets but two shipments annually on little Scandinavian freighters...
...content with this caustic comment. Professor Wieland promptly fired the following original composition at Mr. Ickes...