Word: pungently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greater part of this narrative of an unadventurous but representative life is given in Grandma Brown's own words. Says her daughter-in-law: "Recording her story in her own pungent speech, I have hoped to catch and preserve for Grandmother Brown's descendants some of the flavor of her personality; her aspirations, her achievements, even her limitations; her innocent vanities; her lovable animosities; her patient endeavors...
...this foundation, the author builds a singularly pungent tale of ship yards, cotillions, the rigours of a mid-winter passage of the Horn, the frenzy of the Gold Rush, the economics of the China Trade--in short, the spirit of those adventuresome times...
...dramacritics hailed it as bald, unblushing. Some of them inclined to consider it dull. This judgment, if you are not lulled to sleep by a series of marches and countermarches in boudoir land, is open to dispute. For despite its tail coats, pajamas and cocktails, the play is a pungent pastry out of the same sort of oven as produced the Restoration comedies...
...undesirable," sued for divorce last fortnight by Princess Victoria, whose attorneys named a barmaid, Subkoff was arrested last week and jailed as he slipped into Germany, ostensibly to attend the funeral at the Friedrichshof, near Cronberg, seat of the Landgrave of Hesse. There, in the Taunus Mountains, amid rustling, pungent pines, Victoria of Hohenzollern was buried in the presence of her weeping sister Margaret and their Royal Highnesses the abdicated Grand Duke of Hesse and Duke of Brunswick...
Broken Dishes. Playwright Martin Flavin is lucky in the men chosen to play his heroes. His plays do not need bolstering, but The Criminal Code, one of the most pungent of the season's hits, is undeniably better for the presence of the virtuoso Arthur Byron, and Broken Dishes would certainly suffer by the removal of Donald Meek. It is the venerable story of the henpecked husband who finally revolts against his wife and gleefully dons his rightful, symbolic trousers. This time he is stirred to action by his extraordinarily pretty third daughter (Bette Davis) who wants to marry...