Word: tarte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...angrily. What with local real estate opposition to slum clearance projects, he had had trouble enough trying to get his housing program started. His ace-in-the-hole was FHC, an investment agency which put the Government squarely into the real estate business. Back to Comptroller McCarl went a tart letter taking exception to Mr. McCarl's legal interpretation...
Ordinarily an admirer of your tart journal, I should like to register a protest. ... I refer to a footnote concerning Lawrence Tibbett which was appended to an article headed "Concert Business" (TIME...
TIME, never hypocritical, handled a realistic situation in no vulgar manner. Indeed, the picture was correct, tart, informative, in good taste. It had the mystery of Dore's sketches, a good deal of the expression so common to Raphael's paintings, a shading akin to that found in Titian's masterpieces, and even that artistic sense of proportion found in Michelangelo's creations...
...Sumner was an "opener of minds," his method was that described by Mr. Keller of "speaking out the truth as a basis of understanding." His phraseology was that of a plain speaking man, courageous in all his intellectual and personal relations, tart when tartness was due and effective. Examples are only too copious; "What are we teachers of Greek going to do if Greek is no longer required?" asked a colleague. "Do?" retorted Sumner. "Learn something else and teach it. I've had to do that, twice in my life." Or again, mordantly, to the class, "In the colonies, during...
...country boy who had clerked in a Buffalo store, gone to Harvard for three years until eye-strain forced him out, ownership of the Sun was a third career. (His second had been an Assistant Secretary of War.) Traveled, informed, scholarly, artistic, he gave the Sun his own peculiar tart philosophy. To people who objected to the things he printed, Dana retorted: "I have always felt that whatever the divine Providence permitted to occur, I was not too proud to report."' Passionately fond of a good story, he demanded that his reporters write interestingly. Life...