Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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High in favor likewise are Fred Allen and Jimmy Savo, who have been provided in lieu of a comedy book. Allen's comic methods are pungent] Savo's dancing never misses a good stroke. They wander continually through the performance as the authors of the libretto, escaped from a lunatic asylum. There are the customary, inevitable skits of current Broadway attractions...
...Critics, The Literary Review. "A complete monomaniac, nothing really interests Bodenheim unless it relates somehow to his ruling intellectual passion. . . . Ultimately he can be no more than a minor though highly interesting literary phenomenon, but his flavor, acrid and pungent, is distinct and lasting...
...Wonderful Visit. Another dream play, less truant. It achieves a Messianic message without driving one's tear ducts bankrupt. H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, in dramatizing Wells' early novel of the same name, have discarded much of its pungent satire, playing safe with more drama. They set forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor...
...mess!" was Mr. Blanchard's pungent characterization of the Business Men's Association plan, when a CRIMSON reporter asked his opinion of it. "It leaves no suitable shelter from rain for people who are waiting for cars in the center of the square," he said. "And the proposed exit in front of the Cambridge Trust Co. building would allow no escalator, and only a narrow stairway. The underground structure furthermore is complicated, and people would have to go under the outward bound trains to reach the inward bound. There would also be conflicting lines of traffic in the corridors...
...Vienna with the Austrian ministers: at the Hague with Judge John Bassett Moore. American delegate on the Permanent Court of International Justice: in Geneva with the world's diplomats concerning the Greece-Italian controversy over Corfa. His experience is broad and varied, and he is said to be a pungent and aggressive speaker...