Word: causticity
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...Arnold Chapel. She has a purposeful miscarriage, a struggle for a cottage in lonely Cornwall, a temporary separation during which Aunt Evelyn makes every one miserable with maliciously romantic theories. At last convention conquers and Denham is condemned to housekeeping in metroland (suburbs). All of which is told by caustic Miss Macaulay more bluntly than ever, as befits the primitive heroine. Literary Lon don is the prize ox gored, but all nosey, worrying, oversocialized gibble-gabblers everywhere are told...
...nation may now turn to the business of convalescing from its shame. To be an American does not always mean to be a boorish wretch,, unconscious of the higher things in life. Without degenerating into flagwaving one may easily endure a comparison of the United States with its most caustic critics...
Prizes are acceptable to Bernand Shaw, if not to Sinclair Lewis. A somewhat tardy consideration of "St. Joan" has resulted in the awarding of the 1925 Nobel Prize for literature to its brilliant and caustic creator. Mr. Shaw makes no attempt to conceal the fact that he is pleased at being the recipient of the honor, perhaps realizing that even though it might be considered as merely an additional title and therefore an additional burden. There is a material compensation...
Gigolo (Rod La Rocque). Edna Ferber wrote the story: a Western boy loses his fortune in Pa: shoots down enemy planes, sinks to the level of dancing boy lonesome old ladies, is stung back to respectability by his sweetheart's caustic rebuke, returns to the ironworks tradition of the pioneer Gorys, emerges on top after all. In spite of amateurish photograhy jumbled scenario, the audience found several good moments...
...June Walker who, though brunette by birth and nature, offers a perfect performance as the cooing, wide-eyed, traveling siren, Lorelei Lee. Edna Hibbard's saucy nose, jaunty figure and coon-shouting voice add immensely to the personality of Lorelei's hard-boiled girlfriend, Dorothy, upon whose caustic nature has been fathered the echo: "Brunettes prefer gentlemen...