Word: subacidity
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...whom he is friendly but not on close terms, lives with their son (15) and daughter (17) in Oxford. His friends, who are few but intense, think he is the kindest and one of the cleverest of men. His acquaintances consider him reserved, with a somewhat faded charm, a subacid wit, and a ruthless curiosity about his fellow sinners...
...shrewd as a small-town banker. (He did not at once recognize his voice's value, offered to take speaking lessons; CBS officials fortunately knew better.) He never interpreted, colored or predicted: the grist from his mill was fact, ground fine and digestible, sieved through a faintly subacid cast of thought...
Among the claimants Virgil Markham counted two literary scholars, a college student, two feminine "appreciators," a former collaborator and "rabid admirer." Most persistent was Mrs. Florence Hamilton, of Wellesley Hills, Mass., with whom Virgil Markham has exchanged subacid letters in the New York Times. Mrs. Hamilton not only claims that Poet Markham authorized her to write The Intellectual Biography of Edwin Markham. She also claims that she possesses the original manuscript of The Man With the Hoe. Another "original" was bought by a private dealer for $700 several years ago. Virgil Markham owns a third "original...
...contrast, Conservative Meighen, as a member of the Cabinet during World War I, sponsored conscription, earned the Conservatives the lasting and damaging enmity of most French Canadians. In World War II Meighen has sat in the quiet backwater of Canada's appointive Senate, making subacid wisecracks about Mackenzie King's conduct of the war. He wants overall conscription, abolition of the excess-profits tax. He scoffs at the Prime Minister's "twilight twittering" about joint Canada-U.S. defense planning, grows rabid because Canada does not ban all U.S. periodicals with an isolationist slant. To Arthur Meighen...
...their .shortwave propaganda broadcasts, the British press bustled. Front-paged the London Daily Mirror: "Wodehouse . . . lived luxuriously here because Britain laughed with him, but when the laughter was out of his country's heart, Wodehouse was not ready to share her sufferings. ..." Commented the Daily Express' subacid Columnist Paul Holt: "[Wodehouse is] one of the best loved Englishmen alive, [but] he is now using quite a short spoon to sup with the devil. . . . Life in hell is good to live, I guess, if you are Mister Lucifer's personal guest...