Word: piquant
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Anyone delighted by the richness of British character could find it served up on a heaping platter in the House of Commons last week, steaming with honest emotion, thick with puzzlement, piquant with paradox and much like the late Diamond Jim Brady's favorite fish sauce which was so good that "if you poured some of it over a turkish towel, you could eat it all." Epicures for this sort of dish, Edward of Wales and the Soviet Ambassador sat down, elbow-to-elbow, just above the House of Commons' clock...
...gags are most of them rather piquant. The Senator, who has married a young wife, defends his assertion that life begins at seventy, and not at "sweet sixteen" as one of the show's best songs would have it. "Why, Senator, it's too late for that," the chorus says, and the Senator answers that it might be too late for a Republican, but it's not too late for a Dem-O-Crat...
Jeers at Seaham. A piquant interlude last week was James Ramsay MacDonald's expression of a will to fight again for his seat in Seaham. This coal-mining constituency four years ago returned him to Parliament after he deserted the Labor Party and formed the National Government only because he was unopposed in Seaham by a Conservative candidate and because the Laborite coal miners' wives voted for silver-haired, throbbing-voiced Ramsay while their husbands called him a traitor blackleg, and worse...
...Samuel's end of the deal was handled with equal discretion in Rome by British Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, who for 14 years was Secretary General of the League of Nations, the cynicism of Sir Eric in converse with fellow diplomats at Rome last week was piquant to those who had known him only at Geneva. No man could say that "the deal" would be consummated, for all human endeavor is fallible, and with the heaviest naval concentration since Jutland jamming the Mediterranean this week, the fate of Europe was clearly at the mercy of an incident...
...Farmers Celebrate." To alert newsfolk the difference between what correspondents cable from Moscow and what they say off-the-record when out of Russia constitutes a piquant paradox. In the autumn of 1933 famed Walter Duranty, quizzed by his New York Times superiors in Manhattan, related grim facts. Previously, Mr. Duranty had cabled merely that he thought figures showing the death rate in the Ukraine to have tripled were "too low." Last week honest Walter Duranty got off this normal Moscow dispatch: "The definite and striking success of the collective farm movement has been demonstrated at the second congress...