Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Manhattan, last week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...
...class of people, and one class only for those in whose hearts lives the love of Christmas for its own sake. To those few who do not have this love, to those for whom the lighted shop windows decorated with holly and red ribbon hold no thrill, the pungent odor of the Christmas trees no memories, and the clear, sweet sound of the Christmas carols no dreams, these stories will mean little they will be merely well-written sentimentality...
...goals. From time to time they returned to their paddock and other ponies took their places on the hoof-tracked turf. When the game was over, the ponies returned to their stables hungry and tired. After eating well they slept, flicking their ears at faint sounds in the pungent darkness...
...pungent complaint against news camera men was made on behalf of a member of the British Royal Family, last week, and punctuated with a swear...
...nothing unusual in the way of story: in the springtime a virile lad, poet at heart, leaves his narrow mountain home to see the world. In the autumn he comes back a little worse for wear, disillusioned as to the great beyond. More distinctive than the story is the pungent language...