Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From Congressman F. H. La Guardia of New York, one time World War aviator, never backward at speech, came vituperation unequivocal and pungent. Congressman La Guardia had watched the tests from the air. Said he: "A waste of the taxpayers' money . . . the cost of the test will equal the cost of three up-to-date planes . . . Anti-aircraft defense from the ground is as inefficient today as it was during the War -. . Put the money into the air service and the people of the Atlantic and Pacific .would sleep in peace regardless of what emergency this country might...
Only the Italians knew. The Carbonari, meeting in the back rooms of cigar stores, the pungent lofts of fruit-mongers, passed the whisper with glittering eye and jerking thumb; the Black
These and other pungent crumbs are now swept together by Mr. Partington, sifted and spiced with historical notes, moistened with fat slices from Barrie's My Lady Nicotine and convivially offered to the fuming public...
...bosses depicting the Seven Sacraments of the Church, the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit, the Seven Deadly Sins. Thus, for a mute warning, the effigies of Vice stand against the effigies of Virtue before the face of the Lord. Ingenious are the presentiments of the Seven Sins-pungent apothegms in grey stone. They wear modern clothes, those jaunty evils; they are grouped about a central boss, Penance, symbolized by Peter, who receives the keys of the Church from Jesus Christ. The seven...
...after a long illness. Two strokes of paralysis forced him to resign from the Supreme Court bench two years ago. He was appointed in 1912 by President Taft, whom he met at a dinner given by the Governor of New Jersey. At that dinner he charmed Mr. Taft with pungent anecdotes; they ate, reminisced, chortled together. Soon after, Justice Pitney was notified of his appointment. He had previously sat on the Supreme Bench of New Jersey...