Word: causticity
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...Author. Russel Grouse, colyumist of Manhattan's Evening Post ("Left at the Post"), also writes for the New Yorker, once acted in a play (Gentlemen of the Press) by munching a ham sandwich, darting into a telephone booth. Caustic playgoers called the sandwich appropriate...
...make them subject to more bumps, but ought to allow the backs to get up more speed.... Coach Rockne, of Notre Dame, recently wrote to a Chicago paper and asked that a certain reporter not be assigned to any of his games. It seems that said scribe was too caustic about the Notre Dame team.... BY TIME...
Although ailing of late years and compelled to use a cane, Amy Leslie still bristles with nervous energy. She appears at first nights gowned in brilliant reds and greens, frills and feathers. Her critiques can still be as caustic as complimentary. She travels only in taxicabs, often taking the cab driver in with her when an important purchase is to be made. She admits any age up to 85. Although she is reluctant to discuss her history prior to the publication of her forthcoming memoirs, these facts are known of the life & times of Amy Leslie: She was born...
...Love, forgiveness and pity are his themes, Jesus and the 'gentle Shakespeare' his idols, but truculence is his manner." Says Harris of himself: "I am a lover of books and men, who takes pleasure in the past by traveling and in the future by dreaming." Say caustic critics: his favorite recreation is drawing the long bow. He lives in a villa at Nice with his wife, has had no children...
Author Parker has a way with her; her way is caustic, penetrating, deflating. Her sarcasm, often restrained, is always present, usually evident. Laments for the Living is a collection of 13 short stories, dialogs, monologs in her best, most caustic manner...