Word: piquant
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...part of the machinery. And it is perfectly fitting and proper that athletes should be delicately handled. But debating is another matter, and the innovation adopted by Coach Rowe has merited a front-page notice in the Post. A training-table for the debating team has a certain piquant novelty: it is fraught with delightful possibilities for the time when the conservative orators of the present pass from Paine Hall, and the Freshmen and sub-Freshmen of today, brought up forensically under the new regime, stand in their places...
...Cannes, deemed it worth, his royal while to stand for half an hour near Miss Rosie Dolly while she plunged at baccarat and won 4,000,000 francs ($160,000) in a single afternoon. Friends of the Dollys could only beam and recall a few of the piquant events which have transpired since they were born simultaneously, 35 years ago, in Hungary, to one Julius Deutsch & the onetime Margaret Weiss...
...immediately -bundles of white, bay and bottle green feathers. Some capered crazily on their spindly legs, soon to die with broad, round wing outstretched in a last flap and necks outstretched - like architectural ornaments. A few lived. They were lapwings, whose eggs ("plovers' eggs") British gourmets find piquant. Only in isolated cases had lapwings before been seen in North America. They are natives of northern Europe and Asia and, ornithologists believed, lacked hardihood or strength to fly the Atlantic. That this flock had done so, W. H. D. Witherby, British ornithologist, asserted in London last week. He had just...
...devout but too-refined lady infected with medievalism is married to a rich banker. Finding in his library a copy of Boccaccio's stories made doubly suggestive by "piquant illustrations," she reads them greedily. This, as first act rhetoric has drilled the audience to expect, produces a potent effect on the cool bride; she becomes coy, passionate, kittenish. The dialogue is a rigid translation from the Italian; like the direction and the acting, it is excessively clumsy...
Although possible less piquant than Mae Murray's views on Companionate Marriage, Bruce Barton's opinions of native geniuses are equally fruitful as material for dinner conversation. With one fell swoop he couples Miss Loos with Mr. Galsworthy; if the second is a genius and Mr. Barton infers that he is, then so is the first...