Word: stingingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...
...year-old Iowa strong-boy had just.rared back and blown down the Yankees, baseball's most fearsome array of sluggers. The victory tasted doubly sweet after two recent defeats and press-coop barbs that Feller's $45,000-a-year right arm was losing its sting...
...years was almost gone. U.S. artists were concentrating more on nature, and on themselves. Instead of the sterilized barnyards of "American Scene" art, there were carefully detailed, out-of-the-way beauties. Instead of hoggish politicians and slack-breasted shopgirls, there were powerfully expressionistic symbols of luxury-with the sting left out-such as Josef Scharl's rich, melancholy Babylonia...
...dropped by his predecessor, Anthony Eden, in the House of Commons debate the day before. Eden had said that atomic weapons and "every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty." Eden's counsel: "Abate our present ideas of sovereignty [and] take the sting out of nationalism." His conclusion: the veto power of the Big Five of the United Nations Organization's Security Council should be revised...
...more parents were in the habit of taking their offspring over their knee and applying a generous dose of strap oil, we'd all be better," wrote Mrs. T. Scholz. "My three teen-age girls have felt the beneficial sting since way back...