Word: pungents
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...recipe that worried them because they could not see how to stop it. The recipe: into one coconut, bore a hole. Letting no milk leak out, insert two teaspoonfuls of brown sugar, followed by a cork. Refrain from touching the coconut for three weeks. Result: a tumblerful of cocowhiskey-pungent, potent, popular in southern Florida...
Notice of the writing down was given, last week, in an annual statement which was unique in the number of pungent details. Some of them: 1) Capital stock and surplus, $43,760,162.39; 2) Earnings for 1927 were $14,580,902 as against $13,-311,412 for 1926; 3) Of sales progress the statement said with a lofty wobble, "Business conditions in America were somewhat varied, but the foreign business showed steady growth;" 4) "Surgeons' knives, chisels, office-knives and twine-cutters have been added to our line during 1927;" 5) "We regret to record the death during...
...statue was the gift of the State of Mississippi. To bestow it properly upon the U. S., Governor Dennis Murphree did not rely on his own eloquence but turned to pungent, quizzical onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator John Sharp Williams, who went to Vicksburg for the occasion from his retirement on his gardenia-fragrant plantation, "Cedar Grove," near Yazoo City, Miss...
...band of these nineteen-twenties made in the conductor's image. That is to say, it is an essentially ultra-modern orchestra, in which each choir sharpens its characteristics. From sweetness and light to sonorities and shadows the strings play intensively. The wood-winds are edged and pungent: the brass rich in the horns, piercing in the trumpets, full-throated elsewhere: the percussion for tang and tingle. Gone are the gentle instrumental voices, as they would now seem, that elderly subscribers recall from Gericke's time...
Keynoters. Within the broad concepts just sketched, outstanding U. S. and British delegates struck last week increasingly pungent keynotes...