Word: piquant
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From Forest Hills, Long Island, scene of many a tennis championship, came an unusually polished coterie, the Gardens Players, with Sir James Matthew Barrie's piquant thriller Shall We Join the Ladies? This play, long a favorite at all-star frolics, depicts a British landowner of gentle mien and sinuous mind who has gathered about his dinner table twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine...
...Piquant, such "political incompatibility" would plausibly explain why "Nito" prefers to play the Duce alone in Rome, only visiting his wife in Milan or at his farm in Forli twice or thrice a year...
...Just Simply Because." Though the Laborites seemed scarcely to have hit their electioneering stride, there was one piquant bit of news concerning a potent Laborite M. P., soon perhaps to become a Cabinet Minister, who was knifed in his political back, last week, by his pretty daughter. He, Arthur Augustus William Harry Ponsonby, was Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Ramsay MacDonald Cabinet (1924) and has recently penned an able expose of War lies (TIME, Jan. 21). His faithless daughter. Miss Elizabeth Ponsonby, chirped last week, to a newswoman, "I'm going to vote...
Simple, yet highly colorful and very effective settings form a piquant surrounding for the songs and pantomimes offered. The Russian scenes are mixed with such bits as "An Eighteenth Century Fan", "Fragment of an Etruscan Vase" or a rollicking Dutch travesty...
...Mexico, there to wrestle with the Mexican boundary problem. He went happy, gay and debonair because a little bird had told him he would be Attorney General when, soon, Vermonters Coolidge and Sargent had retired into history. Though nothing more than a bird would stand sponsor for this piquant prediction, it was one of two things which may definitely be put down as sure about the Hoover cabinet...