Word: crisped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Galliénne enunciation is crisp, precise. Her sarcasm is spat out with a spasmodic languor...
When asked for his opinion of the Lar-doux painting, Sir Joseph's crisp moustache twitched and his mobile eyebrows performed a stately and scornful ascension. "The picture," he declared, "is a copy, hundreds of which have been made of this and other Leonardo subjects and offered in the market as genuine. Leonardo never made a replica of his work. His original La Belle Ferronière is in the Louvre...
...duty on celery grown under glass, as many of his constituents, celery growers, were existing only on Red Cross bounty. . . . Congressman Gifford (Massachusetts) describing himself as a Cape Cod turnip raiser, wanted the rates on this commodity hoisted from 12 to 50¢ to shut out Canadian importations. Georgia's Crisp begged for better treatment of peanuts in the next tariff act. Maine's Hersey grew damp-eyed as he told of the plight of the potato producers in his State...
...Tsar Cyril." Unlike most expounders of Spirituality, the Grand Duke Alexander turns readily to crisp and factual themes. As he paced toweringly about his hotel drawing-room, last week, it was not hard to see him as once he was, as the stern quarterdecker, "The Admiral of the Fleet" to Tsar Nicholas the Last...
...dance for the musicians and their friends. There was a birthday luncheon for principals and patrons, with wrist watches and eulogies for Conductor Sokoloff and Manager Hughes, and a cake with ten candles. Patron John L. Severance cut the cake. Composer Deems Taylor of Manhattan, guest of honor, spoke crisp Taylorisms...