Word: causticity
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Election expenses. No governor became excited over the corrupt practices act (limiting campaign expenses), but a onetime governor, Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, an honorary member of the Conference, flayed Senator-elect William S. Vare of Pennsylvania and included in his caustic words Secretary of the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon. The Conference listened, decided that candidates for office who had knowingly violated the corrupt practices act should not be allowed to hold their seats, thus begging the question and naming no names...
...perfectly reputable business, but in the absence of a law controlling it [the Pure Food & Drug Act is not specific enough] a number of scamps have crept into the business." Some hair dyes irritate the skin dangerously; others contain poisonous lead. Some freckle removers contain ammoniated mercury, a caustic poison that eats the skin. If a substance is powerful enough to dissolve hair, it is powerful enough to dissolve skin. Using the x-ray to remove hair may cause cancer. The A. M. A. is seeking laws to "forbid the sale of certain dangerous poisons as ingredients of cosmetics...
Ruthless, caustic German Editor Maximilian Harden, tooth-and-nail foe of the Kaiser, described the onetime Crown Prince after the War, as "a good fellow, very popular with the people, brave and personable." Something like this may have been in Mr. Gerard's mind last week when he called Wilhelm "most shamefully maligned." But to Allied peoples "The Crown Prince" will always be rat-faced', and probably for long detestable...
...Subscriber* Zweiger's letter in TIME, Feb. 28 is rather caustic. Though not a West Virginian, I am familiar with the state and with the comparative virtues of its neighbor states. . . . Living only 50 miles from the Ohio River, Mr. Zweiger has manifestly never been up to Huntington, W. Va., a city after which Chillicothe might well pattern her ways. Being myself a native of Virginia, the original mother of these states, it grieves me to see much unwarranted mudslinging. . . J.H. HUFFARD Bluefield...
European comment upon the treaty was caustic, last week, as keynoted by the London Times: "The projected treaty is absolutely incompatible with the position of Panama in the League of Nations. According to the League Covenant, Panama has undertaken to submit any disputes that are 'likely to lead to a rupture to arbitration or to an inquiry by the Council of the League and in no case to resort to war until a sufficient time has elapsed for an award to be rendered...