Word: tarte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elliot Cabot and Miriam Hopkins play the lovers. But their ardors are scarcely as exciting as the tart philosophizing of old Mrs. Pesta, a female shard, played by Helen Westley of the Guild Board of Directors. Director Westley has acted in 37 of the Guild's 70 productions. As the mother of Susi she makes the first act so brilliant that the last two are inevitably the worse for her longer absence from the stage...
...close of the Senate's debate brought strange sights. It brought an arch-Democrat, Mississippi's tart Harrison, to President Coolidge's side as leader of the fight against the time-limit. It brought the Republican Old Guard into open opposition to their outgoing party leader of the past five years. It brought Nebraska's acid, aloof Norris out in renewed denunciation, of the Old Guardsmen. Half in earnest, half in joke, he berated them for their "hard and ungrateful" attitude toward President Coolidge...
...laundryman in Hanover is reported to have asked another the question: "Boys, they have to have pullee get on blig gleen team?". To this came the tart rejoinder: "No pullee; jess jawley...
...speech of sapient logic and tart sarcasm Mr. MacDonald set forth Labor's view of the new Anglo-British "gentlemen's agreement" thus: "You can have either diplomacy with a cat well hidden in the bag and kept from mewing, or you can have a cat out of the bag and open to the inspection of everybody. This was not quite secret diplomacy, because Sir Austen Chamberlain (British Foreign Secretary) mewed and the newspapers mewed and are still mewing...
...discovers him, white-haired, philosophic, feeding clouds of friendly pigeons. Lance, gentleman bred, chafed at his parents' flashy new-wealth, scorned his father for concealing the identity of his grandfather. Skipping a generation, Lance brought to understanding old Pybus all his young troubles−mixup with a London tart, throes of a first novel. Old Pybus basked in the confidences, gave harsh literary advice, produced just the girl for Lance. That Lance, of avowedly artistic temperament, should accept both the advice and the girl so promptly is somehow too storybook...