Word: piquant
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...feminine equivalent of bluff gives a distinctively piquant flavor to penny ante. Few strong men holding good hands can resist the appeal of a womanly raise when deuces are wild. Small wonder therefore that British auction players fear for the future of their game. Once more, London Bridge is falling down...
...infancy of the Age of Advertising was a day of great phrases. Lately advertisers and their copywriters have grown more subtle and sophisticated. About two years ago the Procter and Gamble Co. introduced, in the white-space areas of their Ivory Soap displays, the piquant ménage of a family called Jollyco, whose members soon became as well known and beloved as the great funny folk?the Gumps, the Katzenjammers, Barney Google and that young patriarch of the comic sheets, Little Nemo...
...current event-items. You present the characters who are in the limelight as real sentient, breathing entities instead of sort of automatons. You have us acquainted, we know them, and are personally interested in them. TIME has many virtues but I wish to speak particularly of your piquant, picturesque, poetical handling of our somewhat prosaic mother tongue. I think your ability in this line reached its climax in your issue of Nov. 16, p. 20, col. 3, when you say, "The thunder that darkly strode from the organ pipes . ..." Ah! that I might have been there to see! Weird, mystic...
...respectability, and when for 13 years it had seared his wanderlustful soul, he bolted, leaving wife and child to Beaumont's communal pity. Seventeen years he spent raping the beautiful heads of Chinese idols and vagabonding in the Orient. At last he returned with a gay malacca stick, a piquant cloak and no repentance in his heart, only a desire to have a look at his daughter. In the end respectability made him hers through the romance of father love, and the accident of discovering a defaulter, which set him high in Beaumont. Spiced with whimsicality and paradox, the book...
...they have made an ice-cream-cone comedy that is as surprising as it is entertaining. The dance-hall den becomes a place of sweet lullabies and softened hearts. The dance-hall girls spread sunshine instead of sin. Colleen Moore is the girl in question, and never was her piquant presence more invigorating. She picks up a tramp, stiffens up his backbone, discovers he is a millionaire's son from the East...