Word: piquant
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...Best foreign exhibit-obviously designed to win U. S. friends-is the Japanese pavilion. An old Nipponese castle around a small lake, the pavilion demonstrates the manufacture of silk, parasols, dolls; offers a culinary oddity, tea ice-cream, nauseous grey-green in color, but pleasantly piquant in taste...
...Gist of his report: the game had failed to demonstrate conclusively whether a foreign fleet could penetrate the U. S. first line of defense and gain a military foothold in the Western Hemisphere, but had proved that the Navy needs added bases in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. Piquant detail of the game: a defense patrol plane, from an altitude of 15,000 ft., far at sea, and undetected even by the umpires, spied for 30 hours and reported by radio on the approaching "enemy" warships...
...book is divided into ten parts with such titles as "Biographica," "The Anxiety of Love," "Dreams and Symbols," and "Time the Obsession." Not the least of the charms of this work are the piquant titles to the poems, beginning with "M," which includes the author's two initials and the Roman numeral for 1000. In his brief foreword Moore describes this as "a set of notes, memoranda, indices, jottings, case-histories, mal-adjustments and occasional solutions. When the work is completed the sonnets will finally fit into place, shaping the autobiography of a person of the period...
...placed through a firm in which Presidential Son Elliott had been a partner). Rev. Dr. Alexander Cairns of Bloomfield, N. J. deposed that in seven months he had delivered 138 lectures at $25 apiece on behalf of Japan, which also employed Washington Lawyer Frederick Moore at $500 a month. Piquant were the names of Spain's U. S. interpreters: for the Rightists. William S. Culbertson, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Chile and brother of Paul Culbertson, assistant chief of the State Department's Division of European Affairs; for the Loyalists, the New Republic's Contributing Editor William...
...Most piquant and persistent of business rumors during recent months has been the one that Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley would shortly resign to head a rejuvenated Fierce-Arrow Motor Corp. Basis for this talk, which Jim Farley never denied, was a Fierce-Arrow reorganization plan proposed last August and approved by stockholders in September, under which the company would raise $10,700,000 through sale of new stock and enter the medium-priced automotive field under the guidance of "a person of national importance." Last week it looked as though Jim Farley had been saved for the Cabinet...