Word: tarting
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...bridegroom's witnesses, failed to come to The Hague, giving the excuse of "illness" which was known to be a fib. This so incensed Queen Wilhelmina that Her Majesty named to act as a witness in his place Professor Jan Huizinga, a Dutch writer of tart anti-Nazi tracts, under whom the Crown Princess once studied history. German correspondents who had come to cover the wedding promptly left The Hague in a huff, all except...
...There is nothing really new in my lecture," said tart, spry little William King ("Bill") Gregory to inquisitive newshawks last week, "but in order to get into the newspapers you have to say something that everybody has known for two or three thousand years...
Joan Crawford is most happily cast. Her familiar vigor and tart beauty are just what the part demands, and the shrewd head for politics is convincingly assumed...
...Washington tart-tongued WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins, who loves to flay Republicans for dragging Politics into Relief, snapped: "Republicans will be in a tough spot if they really want to cut down expenditures by 'taking it out of the politicians' instead of the needy. But of course they won't try to do that. What they really want to do is to cut relief costs by taking it out of the hides of the needy...
...well that they were thinking of retiring after a few more hauls. Then Scotland Yard began to close in on them. But the criminals might have escaped the Law had not that evil-eyed individual in a mackintosh taken a blasphemous fancy to Lady Judith. She, not being the tart he took her for, recoiled in disgust. At that he went and ratted to the police. It looked like an open-&-shut case against Sir Gregory and his pals, especially when he pleaded guilty to the charge of drug-smuggling. At the crucial moment, however, he showed that...