Word: tarte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...typical Englishman is a strong being who takes a cold bath in the morning," said tart Miss "Red Ellen" Wilkinson M. P. last week, adding: "and talks about it for the rest...
...Democratic offer at once lent it an air of vast importance. Republican enthusiasts even interpreted it to mean Democratic support of the President's policies. President Hoover himself, taking it at face value, telegraphed the Democratic Senate floorleader. Joseph Taylor Robinson of Arkansas, his personal acceptance. But tart Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire paraphrased Virgil, saying "Timeo Democrats et dona ferentes [I fear the Democrats, even when bringing gifts...
Thus spoke tart Senator George Higgins Moses of New Hampshire, chairman of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, as he mournfully observed State after State replace Republican Senators with Democrats. The Democratic strength in the Senate during election night rose four, six, eight, possibly nine seats, bringing the underdog party within a vote or two of a majority. Certain it was that the coalition of Democrats and insurgent Re publicans would be more strongly than ever in control of the Senate to work against President Hoover's plans...
Even that plum tasted slightly tart to Aviation Corp. officials, whose mouths had been watering in anticipation of "100% of the maximum rate" for which they had bid. While the Watres bill authorizes payment up to $1.25 per mi. flown by the contractor, the Postmaster General established a scale of 75¢ per mi. for mail space of 47 cu. ft. (about 400 Ib. of mail) and 40¢ for space of 25 cu. ft. (about 225 Ib. of mail). Aviation Corp expected Postmaster General Brown to contract for the larger load. Instead, he took only the 40¢ space to start with...
...League circles the Henderson "Sermon on Disarmament" was rated of paramount importance, considered the deadliest shaft yet loosed at the prospective "United States of Europe," held to mark the emergence of "Uncle Arthur" as a figure of world significance-much as his colleague, tart-tongued Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden became an international personage last year in a single day at The Hague (TIME, Sept. 9, 1929 et ante...