Word: tarting
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...those with such an appetite for romance that they gag at no improbability, Author Gorman's latest concoction will be a toothsome dish. More finicky gourmets will rise before Suzy is all swallowed. A companion piece to Jonathan Bishop (TIME, Dec. 4, 1933), this tale of a golden-hearted tart is set against the more modern background...
...seduction" of the Scot continued until his whole outlook on life has come to parallel that of the Londonderrys. Fortnight ago Viscount Snowden revealed in his tart autobiography (TIME, Nov. 5) the Prime Minister's humorous admission that because of his metamorphosis "every Duchess in London will be wanting to kiss me." In what a Canadian paper promptly called the hen-run of British society dowagers the Marchioness of Londonderry is undisputed No. 1 hen to Scot MacDonald's chaste Chanticleer...
...Juan Hill, Frank Richardson Kent was starting as a political reporter on the Baltimore Sim. Today this small, smart newshawk is one of the country's most famed commentators on political Washington. No key-hole gossip, he makes Democrats and Republicans alike quake with his breezy invective and the tart sagacity he packs into his daily column, "The Great Game of Politics," is quoted from ocean to ocean. Yet until lately Frank Kent could be read in full nowhere except in the Baltimore...
...Treasury, Secretary Morgenthau, sunburned and jovial after a month on a Montana ranch, heard the new drum thumping, was not greatly alarmed. To the Press he promptly gave a tart answer...
...does nothing else, such a book as Property or Peace should impress its readers with the fact that in a world of tear-gas bombs, castor oil. strikes and politico-religious excommunications there is still such a thing as tart reasonableness...