Word: rapier
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...Bearers, The Show-Off, Craig's Wife. The Deep Mrs. Sykes is not their equal. It is a little too talky, too thin, too pat. But it asserts its theatrical independence at every turn, it makes grown-up assumptions, and the best of it seems written with a rapier rather than...
...this week along the vast Russian front was final proof that Voronov was right-for Russia. The specific proof was that the Red Army, spearheaded by the greatest concentration of artillery ever gathered on any front, was winning. Voronov's bludgeon had beaten down the German's rapier; the might of other elements of the Russian Army was trampling...
...Porter Hall, a girls' dormitory, took the place of Pontigny. And last week for the second year, intellectuals who had bandied ideas in Burgundy found themselves just as happy in Massachusetts, although they missed such old Ponti-nians as rapier-sharp Gide. General topic of the second summer of Mount Holyoke entretiens: "permanence of values and renovation of means," with weekly subdivisions for poetry, politics, sociology, science, theater, art, the novel...
...allow 29,000 Bulgarian, Hungarian and Rumanian Jews to enter Palestine. His report was received in England with mixed rejoicing and fury. To demands that the quota be enlarged, Stanley replied: "Stability in the Middle East [i.e., the Arabs] must be considered." > A pamphlet, Let My People Go, by rapier-minded, humanitarian Victor Gollancz, offered evidence that most of Europe's Jews will soon be dead unless something is done. Golancz pointed out that promises of postwar retribution "do not save lives," suggested release and exchange of Jews for war prisoners through neutral countries. Nearly a quarter-million Britons...
...Button-cute, rapier-keen, wafer-thin, and pauper-poor is S. J. Perelman, whose tall, stooping figure is better known to the twilit half-world of five continents than to Publishers' Row. That he possesses the power to become invisible to finance companies; that his laboratory is tooled up to manufacture Frankenstein-type monsters on an incredible scale; and that he owns one of the rare mouths in which butter has never melted are legends treasured by every schoolboy...