Word: causticity
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Since life tends to degenerate into a simple automatism, in which one makes no question why, and allows habit to answer for when and allows habit to answer for when and where and how, consure of minor mannerism should not be caustic; all men put the shoe upon the same foot first year in and year out. It is for this reason if for no other that the sceptical soul feels little amazement on hearing that the Model League of Nations is making plans for another Jamboree to take place in January. The Model League has been treated in these...
...Chicago Medical Society was in a furor last week. In the September American Mercury, Editor Morris Fishbein of the Journal of the American Medical Association had poked gently caustic fun at the elaborate routine of present-day obstetrical practice. He made bold to wonder whether modern mothers-in-child-birth are really better off than those of horse & buggy days. For this heresy the Society demanded that the A. M. A. discipline its spokesman. This the A. M. A. flatly refused...
...very trivial aid to this picture. Laughton gives all his impersonations a preternatural vitality and if he had happened to look otherwise, it would merely have seemed that Holbein had been inaccurate. The whole picture, directed by Alexander Korda, reflects the validity of his acting: it is a shiny, caustic, understanding portrait of a personage as comprehensible as he is extraordinary. Elsa Lanchester (Mrs. Charles Laughton) does, next to her husband, the cleverest acting in the picture. Binnie Barnes as Catherine Howard, Merle Oberon as Anne Boleyn and Wendy Barrie as Jane Seymour, despite their appalling names, are lovely looking...
...good as the smelly ones. On the other hand they found that zinc carbonate added during the manufacturing process reduced smells to a minimum, and very simply. More complicated and costly is the purification of the latex (the original rubber fluid tapped from the trees) by digestion with dilute caustic, centrifuging, creaming, dialysis, or ultrafiltration...
...wholly tractable witness was "O. P." His memory of figures and dates was defective, he refused consistently to "guess." Time and again he answered, "I don't know. We will get that figure for you." or "You can get that from the records." Caustic comments about the quality of his memory did not move him. Yet at the end of four days' testimony the committeemen could get a good idea of how the Van Sweringens had acquired their railroad system, step by step from a "shoestring...