Word: tarted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Penzance still lacks what it never had, the tart flavor of real social satire, but in Guthrie's version it serves nicely as a gentle spoof of a genteel spoof...
...Governor tries to yank the old boy's hand out of the till, a bomb explodes in his car. While he is recovering, the missus serves as acting Governor, and by the time she is through acting, the rascals are out and the state remolded nearer to the tart's desire...
Learned Hand served as a federal judge longer than any other man-52 years. His opinions were prodigious, totaled more than 2,000. covering every phase of the law from maritime liens to complicated antitrust cases. His tart observations ("Judges can be damned fools like anybody else") were treasured. On the bench. Judge Hand was a formidable figure, a stocky man with the broad shoulders of his Kentish forebears, glittering eyes under dense brows, and craggy features that might have been carved by Gutzon Berglum. Intolerant of lawyers who strayed from the point or became too verbose. Judge Hand sent...
Poulenc: Sextet for Piano & Woodwind Quintet (Frank Glazer, piano; the New York Woodwind Quintet; Concert-Disc). After 30 years, Poulenc's tart and witty notes still work surprisingly well. Many a composer might envy the piece's weakness: a manner sometimes too glib and an oversupply of ideas...
Proper & English. An American by residence, Miss Hewitt came to dote on Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her death. Miss Hewitt had mailed her own obituary to Mrs. Ogden Reid, onetime publisher of the New York Herald Tribune...