Word: causticity
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...alone in the casual caustic. One profound commentator on national life has found Americans to be a race of Rotarians, thinking only of themselves. Another novelist places these unfortunates low in the scale by declaring them to be a race of rather nasty people, seeking primarily to satisfy their lowest impulses. A foreign writer glances across the ocean and through the haze of three thousand miles deduces that they are prigs, smug claimants of virtue where no virtue exists. A recent visitor to Boston pronounces them a lazy people, desiring luxury and case. And their most consistent critic declares that...
...Author. Roy Floyd Dibble, a. gentleman of 39, obtained a Ph. D. at Columbia University in 1921 and later instructed there, in English. Soon after its inception, the American Mercury enlisted his caustic nib, as has the Century Magazine. Last year he caused widespread delight with a biography of the late and eminent pugilist, John L. Sullivan (TIME, April...
...that I have described, but even in the daily routine there is a fascination which keeps one going through leg-weary days when stories just will not break, through disheartening evenings when one sees the products of a day's endeavors tossed in the waste basket with perhaps a caustic word from the assistant managing editor. There is the thought of other days when one will stumble on a big bit of news ahead of his fellows, ahead perhaps of the Boston papers, when his story will lead the paper with a double column headline and his rivals' offerings will...
Potash is one of the sloppy words of English. Originally it meant wood ashes (potassium carbonate). Now it may mean caustic potash (potassium hydroxide) or even pure potassium oxide, an excellent fertilizer. By potash people mean potassium, a, metal absolutely essential to plant life.* When drained from the soil potassium (as one of its salts) must be replaced in the form of a fertilizer, else only weazened crops will result. The primitive farmer manures his plot with stable gleanings and slaughter-shed offal. The Chinese peasant assiduously gathers the dried plaques of cow dung, the desert agrarian those left...
...final argument for Scopes disintegrated the seemingly concrete issues in the powerful solvent of logic made caustic with sarcasm- Mr. Clarence Darrow was speaking. The Court will deliberate before delivering its decision...