Word: piquantly
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...pleasant personality of Professor Greenough transforms the rather mountainous subject matter of this course into something of piquant charm. To one who is concentrating in English the reading as assigned is invaluable. To one who is not concentrating in English the reading may prove interesting depending on the individual's taste. The student in this course may pass surreptitiously by some of the reading without materially affecting his grade. A rather formal souffle rendered more palatable by Professor Greenough's interpretation and presentation...
...play the good fairy. Between her one good turn a day and her one good man a night she keeps her audience pleasantly amused, especially by her trick of beginning to talk in rapturous innocence and then coming out with the darndest things. The men who call forth this piquant display are less interesting, except for Mr. Connolly as the crusty and poverty-stricken lawyer whom she picks at random from the telephone book when the situation seems to call for a husband. Very entertainingly his fortunes look up for a time as the incredible little Cindarella sends a rich...
...which he devoted his first and little known book. With mild maliciousness he turned to the Victorian Age, "an age of barbarism and prudery ... in which . . . the outlines were tremendous . . . the details sordid. . . ." Later, with amused detachment, he conjured up Elizabeth. In Portraits in Miniature he selected such piquant souls as Sir John Harington. who, "suddenly inspired," invented the water-closet. Spindle-shanked, bespectacled, reclusive, with a long red beard and a high falsetto voice, he was the point of many a pundit's quip.* Died. Paul Moritz Warburg, 63, famed banker, board chairman of The Manhattan...
...their maternity. When a yellow girl, reputed to be the daughter of President Tyler and living in his entourage in the White House, eloped with a white man and in punishment was sold 'down the river,' the matter was so ordinary as to cause only a piquant wave of gossip in Washington society. What was customary, in this regard, of those in high places was true to a greater degree of the generality of slave owners." Result is a melange of black and white, dashed with red. The U. S. Census counts 20% of Negroes as mulattoes. Private...
Florenz Ziegfeld, whose slick grey hair is growing thinner as his piquant, 44-year-old second wife (Billie Burke) passes on to join his svelte first (Anna Held) in Broadway's legend of beauty, knows what nostalgia is. He is one of the few gentlemen of his race and profession who can capitalize nostalgia with finesse and good taste...