Word: sassing
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...Lost Sass. Now peace has taken its kind of toll. In lieu of thinly veiled assaults on brass pomposity, there are special homemaking articles for military wives and front-page stories about some general officer's advancement in rank. There are no crusades; political news is calipered inch for inch so that neither party can claim bias. The long arm of peacetime censorship hangs implicitly over every page. Recently, an editor of the European Stripes was denied permission to reprint some Bill Mauldin war cartoons on the ground that "they show officers in a bad light.' The famous...
Told in neat, revue-skit-sized flashbacks, The Good Soup uses a good deal of stage material that is somewhat reminiscent itself. Its scenes are oftener familiar and hard-headed than lighthearted and original, so that in terms of lightly farcical entertainment, The Good Soup needs more sass and zest. But Soup, with the story it has to tell, need not only be as frothy as champagne, or as French as snails; it can also, and with rewards of its own, be as French as money. There is nothing girlishly rueful or gallantly raffish about Marie-Paule; though...
...American sass by addressing him on a crowded dance floor as "Jumbo...
...book, there are tunes that can only turn rather untuneful to avoid seeming reminiscent, and lyrics that are ruggedly mediocre. Stephen Douglass and Lois O'Brien look nice as the lovers; Barbara Perry tries to help as Rumple's girl-or girl Friday; and Gretchen Wyler, with sass and sex enough for most roles, seems wasted as a girl with psychiatric problems that conceivably grew out of the show...
...Sass's argument for segregation maintained that racial "separation" is an American heritage and an evolutionary law. He felt, however, that if untutored children were placed in close contact with another race, this law might be ignored...