Word: piquant
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...present parliament when she won (by a majority of about 6,000 votes over her Liberal and Labor opponents), the seat for Southend-on-Sea, vacated by her husband's elevation to the Peerage on the death of his father. Said she, summing up what was called a "piquant campaign:" "The Southend people's verdict proves, further, their confidence that a wife may represent them as faithfully as a husband...
...Coolidge heard about it-the conversation of His Majesty T. Goesti Bagoes Djelantik, Rajah of Karang Asem on the Island of Bali in the Dutch East Indies, and one Joseph Patterson, stock broker and writer, who returned home last week and got into the headlines with this piquant chitchat: The Rajah: "Where did you come from?" Mr. Patterson: "From America." The Rajah: "Is that further away than Singapore?" Mr. Patterson: "Much further." The Rajah, producing a newspaper photograph of President Coolidge and Queen Marie of Rumania: "I know. I have a picture of your Rajah. Is this his favorite wife...
...struck twelve times by bullets which tore away part of the tail. One bullet struck another marine plane. Soon Admiral Latimer ordered the U. S. planes to mount machine guns and use them when fired upon. Since the U. S. is not at war with Nicaragua this development was piquant...
...Piquant also are the recently announced terms under which 3,000 rifles have been sold by the U. S. War Department for $6 each to the Conservative Nicaraguan Government of President Adolfo Diaz (recognized by the U.S.). The contract is so drawn that even if the Liberal Nicaraguan Government of President Juan Sacasa (recognized by Mexico) should be returned at the next Nicaraguan election it will have to finance payment for these arms (now being used to fight it by the Conservatives...
...intending to renew my subscription for TIME, which soon expires after a six months' period. I have read every number from cover to cover nearly. At first I liked its terse, piquant style, but have tired of it. Your paragraph titles are frequently frivolous, silly and often, too, misleading. Nor do I approve of the striking adjectives frequently used, not in themselves, but in their conclusion or inferences. I do not accuse the magazine of bigotry towards any one thing or belief...