Word: tarting
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...Eden's stops in Paris, before and after he visited Rome last week, Premier Laval first obtained from him Great Britain's promise, then informed him it had been broken. In private M. Laval's words were tart, but in public he made pointed demonstration of his warm personal friendship for the harassed young man who is Britain's Minister Without Portfolio for League of Nations Affairs. Together they dined & wined in a Paris restaurant, later appeared arm in arm in the gallery of the Chamber of Deputies with the explanation that "Captain Eden wishes to observe the Chamber...
...Bailey's Hanging Judge was also believed last week to be the only one of His Majesty's judges who ever employed judicially that tart expression: "The answer is a lemon...
...tart and determined as ever, Senator Carter Glass of Virginia marched into the White House to demand an answer to one question: Did the President, contrary to the assurances he had given Mr. Glass in January and in March, intend to insist on the passage of that section of the Administration's Banking Bill which would give the Federal Reserve System in fief to the Treasury Department? Mr. Roosevelt's closest friends in Congress had said the President would so insist. In the face of Mr. Glass's demand for an unequivocal answer, the President said...
...Moscow bureau, Boston's Christian Science Monitor asked recently: "Has Russia gone Democratic?", referring to Premier Molotov's recent announcement of "secret, direct and equal" suffrage. Excerpts from the tart answer of Monitor Muscovites last week: "If the Communists were content to express their aims honestly, and to describe conditions in Russia as they are, it would be much easier to sympathize with them. Unfortunately, they prefer to misrepresent conditions not only to their own people, but to the outside world as well, to lay claims to a democracy which still has no existence in Russia...
Nancy Lady Astor turned her tart Virginia tongue last week upon Minister of Labor Oliver Stanley, gilded son of the Queen's Bedchamber Woman, who fortnight ago confessed to the House of Commons the failure of the National Government's attempt to reform Britain's wasteful "Dole" (TIME, Feb. 18). Said the Noble Lady: "Government should have stood by their unemployment scheme and corrected its defects without so much everlasting apologizing to the Labor Opposition! It was all right for the Labor Minister to make his statement in this House, but it was not necessary...