Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since then Mr. Blumenfeld has become, if not a "power," at least a virile, pungent force in Fleet Street, which he described, last week, as "that street of golden adventure which has been so long my home...
...interrupted when he stood in front of a machine gun. "A Razor Strop" is an embittered sketch of a soldier whose trivial theft leads him to a profitless disaster. Other stories about captains and colonels and knights-at-arms gain their effect from staccato characterization, a style made pungent by army jargon. Author Thomason has much ability to make the minutiae of life significant...
...rises, Attorney General Sir Douglas Hogg stands up and moves a second reading. Correspondents note his erect, judicial poise, wonder how long he will keep cool under the barrage of jeers which Laborites will soon make hot. Racing pencils jot names of major characters and their more and more pungent speeches as the drama plays on and upward to crescendo...
...moral retribution. Miss Brady, as usual, ably projects her emotional scenes. But she, like any other performer who would essay the role, looks ridiculous in the heaping portions of lovey-dovey that were just too darling about the last fringe of the Victorian period but smell even more pungent than camphor balls...
...Weighed carefully a startling prediction made in pungent fashion last week by famed Conservative Editor James Louis Garvin of the Observer,* who wrote ominously of Premier Stanley Baldwin's Conservative Cabinet: "The Diehards? have jumped on the box seat of the Conservative coach and are whipping the team to the devil. The Cabinet's introduction of the trade union bill [TIME, Feb. 21, 28] which proposes to make a sympathetic strike illegal, virtually forbids picketing and isolates the civil service from the general labor movement, is the act of a Government riding for a fall...