Word: causticity
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...Frazier, Republican insurgent from North Dakota, and Senator Wheeler, Democratic " Progressive " from Montana, both exclaimed: "The appointment shows the President is not a Progressive "and promised to vote against Mr. Kellogg's confirmation as Ambassador by the Senate. Gordell Hull, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, delivered his usual caustic comment: " I wonder what Newberry will be appointed to." Otherwise comment was more of surprise than of disapprobation...
...Judge was last year one of the books most discussed in literary circles, is vivid, animated and, in certain poses and moods, beautiful. She has dark hair, dark eyes dark skin, bright lips. She talks quickly and brilliantly. Her conversation is lit with epigrams and she has moments of caustic comment on life in general and people in particular. One of the most ardent feminists for years, she nevertheless does not smoke. To her lecture tour which starts this week she looks forward with much trepidation. But she is a good actress (she once acted in London...
...Cunard, of the great shipping family, Sir John Lavery's portrait of his wife, one of the show pieces of last year's Royal Academy. The governing committee refused to accept it, and the pot boiled over. Lady Cunard submitted her resignation from the committee in a caustic letter with the rebuke: "One cannot permit an artist of Lavery's distinction and age to be insulted like that." Lady Lavery and Lady Cunard are both Americans, and the rejection has been ascribed by some to anti-American prejudice. Others see in the incident a well laid scheme...
...suspension by the Fascisti of the Communist journal Il Lavoratore caused some caustic comment in the Chamber of Deputies...
...Army, Trotzky, Minister of War, said: "We want peace, but nobody knows when the bad intentions of our enemies will compel us to get into the field." They ridicule France's attitude with regard to the Ruhr and spare no opportunity to cover that nation with caustic criticism. They have informed the Allies that they will accept no settlement of the Memel question unless they are consulted, holding that the port of Memel is of vital interest to Russian trade. With regard to the disturbance in the Vilna district, Russia openly accuses France of stirring up trouble by lending...