Word: causticity
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Died. Dr. William Temple Hornaday, 82, caustic, crusading wild life conservationist, first director of the New York Zoological Park (1896-1926); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn...
...engagingly like Henry of the cartoons" to Critic Claudia Cassidy of the Journal of Commerce. Sergei Prckofieff seated himself at a piano, neatly and precisely played with the orchestra his own Concerto No. 1. No stranger to Chicago was this 45-year-old Russian. There in 1921 both the caustic Concerto and Prokofieff's opera The Love for Three Oranges received the:r first performances. In Chicago last week on his seventh...
From Midland, Dow indirectly serves the washwoman (with caustic soda in soap), the tiremaker (with sulphur chloride used in vulcanizing rubber), the shoe maker (sodium sulphide for tanning), the cleaner (chloroform and carbon tetrachloride), the dyer (synthetic indigo), the rayon maker (acetic anhydride...
...magazine of ripe years and rich reputation came to an end in all but name when Life was purchased by TIME Inc. With its November issue now on the presses, that civilized funsheet will, after 53 years, cease to function as the good-humored critic, the caustic commentator on the U. S. scene, will pass into the realm of great things gone forever...
Next morning, newshawks of a hundred papers were clamoring at official doors for confirmation. Diplomats goggled, raised incredulous eyebrows, politely refused to let their caustic remarks be quoted. Secretary of State Hull, cornered in press conference, denied that he had ever even heard of such a thing. Aboard the President's special train Secretary Wallace spoke for his chief: "The President authorized me to say there were no conversations of any nature whatsoever looking toward any meeting of this sort...