Word: pungents
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...SALVATION OF Pisco GABAR-Geoffrey Household - Little, Brown ($2.50). By the author of Rogue Male, twelve short stories as pungent as good Maugham, with at least one staggering piece of condensation: " 'I blame nobody,' said Gabar. 'We are animals. Will you have a drink...
...about to launch the weekly W. Lee O'Daniel News. Rate: 25? for a trial four months. Object: ". . . to get the full and complete truth and facts to the people by means of a new newspaper." Texas dailies and radio stations liberally reported his announcement, his pungent criticisms of publishers and station owners, his invitation to his listen ers to solicit subscriptions. Last week the first issue was published at Fort Worth...
Three days in Paris put no such impression on waxy Mr. Welles as did his volcanic interview with Hitler. Dinner and a two-hour talk with Premier Daladier brought a pungent restatement of the French point of view: that there could be no peace so long as the Nazi regime remained in power; bitter experience had revealed that Nazi pledges did not count. Crisscrossing French political and economic life, Sumner Welles saw President Lebrun, the President of the Senate, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, ex-Premier Socialist Leon Blum, the leaders of the Polish Government in exile...
Porter Sargent seasons his argument with pungent puns. Sample: "It is rumored that, irked by British demands...
...Justice Butler's enjoying this jest, those of us who have been exposed to Mr. Powell's pungent blasphemy doubt whether the Justice ever could have read anything written by the Professor...