Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This superb clown flashes one of the season's gems in his sensational disclosure of the shocking impotence of Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Smith and Lloyd George, none of whom can lay eggs, grow ostrich feathers, or sit like a house fly in the saccharine stickiness of a raspberry tart. The chorus of toe-dancers flit about in movements more airy than usual. Theatre-goers can hardly afford to miss Comedian Lupino. The rest is mediocre...
...wrote of the fragrance and spaciousness of an Irish mansion as old as the green sod it stood in. He kept bringing in the sweep of Irish history through the ancient family trees-old kings and warriors and battles from Queen Maeve in the day of giants to tart Timothy Healy, and the Fenian men humming the "Shan Van Voght," the Song of Defeat, which is through the book like a soft threat...
...sweet or bitter, is the essence of autobiography. Cartoonist McDougal's is exhilaratingly tart. Roosevelt once warned: "He can sting like an adder," but could have amended, from his knowledge of the man and of adders, that he was not wantonly poisonous. The tongue that flickers through these pages feels for its cheek oftener than not. And another thing: adders do not boast...
...mental hermit. The thousands of universities and colleges between the two oceans put forth elevens that range the country fighting for national recognition. The papers play up their prowess. Individual players, little colleges, pop into the limelight overnight. And over all and through all blow the tart autumn breezes, whipping up the flames in the follage, and in the girls cheeks, and filling the heart of man with a desire for heroism. To go to college and play football has the same attraction now for the boys of this country that Hollywood has for the girls...
...Guthe have come to hand. Possibly because the reviewer spoke of the Chicken-Wagon Family (TIME, Sept. 21) as "an unforgetable book"; of Five Oriental Tales (TIME, Sept. 14) as ". . . keen-edged. . . glinting fine irony"; of The Perennial Bachelor (TIME, Sept. 7) as "... ripe fruit juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...