Word: tarte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More credit to her for never relinquishing, save when artistically imperative, a gay, bubbling spirit that is far to seek these days. The book itself is ripe fruit-juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
Grand yarn-spinner though he is, Author Beach never on any account saves a tart twist...
...favorite topic was Alumnus Newell Martin, 75, and President Angell. Laboring under the impression that his alma mater had gratuitously urged him and his fellow Yale alumni to behave themselves at their reunions, Alumnus Martin had sat down and addressed to President Angell (via The New York Times) a tart letter on the subject of teaching old gentlemen party manners (TIME, June...
...POOR NUT ?College cutups salted with just enough true satire to make them tart and generally diverting...
...Dark Angel. Michael Aden's first play sustains that singular Armenian's record for tart diversion. For The Dark Angel was obviously written by Michael Arlen, despite the credit of the playbill to H. B. Trevelyan. The technic may be Guy Bolton's (who wove the structure, we are told) but lines such as "She always liked small hats," no one would write but Author Arlen...