Word: tarting
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...keep his sentiment dry, tart and fresh by invoking anything from the Colosseum and the Louvre Museum to Mickey Mouse and Cellophane, by chortling "You're the bangle I long to dangle," or by confessing, as he does in the new show...
...chairman ship of O.E.E.C., Western military union and the direction of Belgium's Foreign Office, don't you think that's enough for one man?" But he finally gave in, promised to try to form a new coalition cabinet. Sensible Belgians agreed with a tart observation made by the Brussels newspaper, Nation Belge: "To save two heads, the government was decapitated. Was it worth...
...Paris (Jacques Feyder-Film Rights International). Basically, this is merely a French-made gangster melodrama, but it has some wry Gallic nourishes. Example: the downtrodden Cinderella of the film (Andrée Clement) is not rewarded with the Prince Charming (Jacques Dacqmine), who runs off with a flashy tart. Instead, she gets a profitable little hotel business, and seems perfectly content with the bargain...
...middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances as a C sharp and C natural grinding together; at other times, to an orchestral accompaniment that was as clear and gentle as Mozart. The songs seldom ended in the same key as they had begun, often wound up with a different tempo. But whatever Gay or Pepusch might...
Died. Dame Lilian Braithwaite, D.B.E., seventyish, tart-tongued grand old lady of the English stage (The Vortex, Arsenic and Old Lace); of a heart ailment; in London...