Word: piquant
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...weary Britons last fortnight read these piquant queries in their favorite column-Nat Gubbins' "Sitting on the Fence" (TIME, Dec. 18)-and settled down to learn what "Dr. N. Gubbins, the notorious Fleet Street quack," had to say on the subject of psychoneurosis...
Britons are given to labeling themselves with strange-sounding titles indicative of their respective towns, viz.: Oxford, Oxonian; Cambridge, Cantabrigian, which are the most famous. There are others throughout Great Britain, often piquant and quaint, like Liverpool, Liverpudlian; Blackpool, Blackpudlian, and perhaps best of all Giggleswick, Giggleswicket...
...second Broadway show, as in her first (One Touch of Venus), jet-haired, slant-eyed Sono Osato catches and keeps the spotlight. She has personality and piquant looks as well as nimble feet...
...sense of fun. Though its comic edge is keen, Sally's and Bill's unconventional housekeeping is rich in bedspread and double-boiler touches that evoke delighted recognitions. And though lightly handled, Sally and Bill are pretty convincing people. Much of the comedy comes out of the piquant conflict of their own temperaments-out of Sally's young need to be dramatic and Bill's grown-up insistence on being downright. Their easy, sprightly, sometimes funny talk stays in character, is never primed with gags...
Stand By tells the adventures of a patched-up 26-year-old four-stacker in the Pacific. The story is given a piquant twist by the fact that the destroyer goes into its big battle with a maternity ward below decks-survivors of a torpedoed ship. While infants wail and the ship's carpenter does his best to midwife a new baby, the destroyer drives in on a Jap battleship and, with a display of fireworks which alone is worth the price of admission, sinks...