Word: causticity
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...have listened to a great deal of public and very caustic criticism of Tammany, and I asked myself the question: How can anything live in this country 139 years that is not all right? . . . Worthy Grand Sachem, I could speak on this platform for an hour and a half on the record and history of the Tammany Society as dedicated to the principles set forth in the Constitution of this Government. ... I will conclude with a congratulation and thanks to the society of which I am proud to be a member and an officer...
...collectors. Over a long period of years, perhaps as much as $250,000,000 worth of works of art have left England for the U. S. This fact has caused sentimental Britons to feel pangs of regret and it last week caused Arthur Brisbane, Hearst editor, to offer caustic reproof rather than sympathy to the sentimental Britons. Wrote rich Mr. Brisbane, whose splendid homes are by no means bare of pictures...
...they chose to retranslate the German version recently effected by Stefan Zweig. Their choice was wise. As rewritten by an up-to-date European, Author Jonson's somewhat mechanical morality becomes a gleeful and raucous farce, lacking the solemnity of a classic and imbued instead with precisely the caustic and colloquial violence which it had for its original audiences...
...News, etc.) lately encouraged him to buy 19 small newspapers in California (the San Diego Union, Pasadena Evening Post, Hollywood News, Hermosa Daily Breeze, Venice Evening Vanguard, etc.), was disturbed last week, while traveling in Europe, by a cablegram from home. In the U. S. Senate, Nebraska's caustic Norris had hinted that Publisher-Magnate Copley was buying up newspapers solely to defeat legislation against "the power trust...
...virtue. For while the first half of "The Road to Rome" leads through a pleasant landscape of hundred percent Roman-American rotarianism, by the end of the second milestone it has entered into the realm of true dramatic tragedy, enlivened here and there with sparkling and often rather caustic wit--which is quite as it should be. And in keeping with the subject, the scenery and staging is magnificent...