Word: pungents
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...London, Alice Thistle bought a coat, was 1) puzzled, 2) dismayed, 3) appalled by its pungent odor. Said she: "I suffered social embarrassment." Said her mother: "She sits and broods for hours." Said a doctor: "She is on the verge of a complete mental breakdown." Reason: When the coat was sent to the cleaners, a dead mouse was extracted from the collar...
...show given by the Chinese Cultural Theatre Group, a troupe that had reached Manhattan by way of several west coast cities. Their play-acting was not up to Chinatown's level. But the music, delicately played on half-a-dozen unfamiliar exotic instruments, was as tangy and pungent as a 25-year-old egg. While Musician Sung Yue-tuh drew subtle wheezes from the sheng (4,639-year-old ancestor of the harmonica), and Wang Wen-piao sawed at his erh-hu (two-string fiddle), the audience took it politely. But when Professor Wei Chung-loh of China...
Toward the end, fleetly dropping pungent comments, Anderson whizzes by Clyde Fitch, William Vaughn Moody, Eugene O'Neill, Maxwell Anderson, Sidney Howard, George S. Kaufman, George Kelly, Clifford Odets and others like a dogsled carrying serum to Nome; calls the Federal Theatre an artistic flop; describes the U. S. theatre's 300-year achievement as essentially "journalistic...
...politics have always played a big part in Nobel Prize selections. In politically-conscious Europe Pearl Buck is famed for The Good Earth, for her pungent, telling attacks on dictators, for her tributes to the common people of China. In a broadcast to Sweden, modest Pearl Buck said simply that the award should have gone to Theodore Dreiser...
More than any other writer of his rank, Ernest Hemingway tells his stories by means of pungent, unexpected, abbreviated dialogue. Characters are revealed in sharp, blind, tormented speeches which break through commonplace talk. In some of Hemingway's stories, notably Fifty Grand and The Killers, so much of the narrative is implicit in the dialogue that they read almost like acting versions. For these reasons many a reader has wondered how Hemingway would be as a playwright...