Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maxim Maximovich Litvinov, wife of the Soviet commissar for foreign affairs, is English, forthright, tart-tongued. She has never met President Herbert Hoover nor Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson. But at Geneva last spring she beheld the dapper gentleman they sent to tell the League of Nations and the world for the first time about the President's disarmament plans-Hugh Simons Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
Complacently the honest men smirked, but they did not relax. They knew that tart, vital words would follow the fulsome compliment. Two days previously Il Duce had given his Cabinet the most dramatic shaking up in the history of his regime. He had kicked himself out of seven* of the eight Cabinet ministries he previously held -retaining only the portfolio of Interior and of course the Prime Ministry. Wildest rumors were current as to what this might portend: 1) That he had negotiated a secret pact of union between Italy and Hungary and was clearing his decks to become Supreme...
...fine actor!" .they exclaim, though their knowledge of such emergencies is limited by a predilection for the Atlantic Monthly and the notion that it is wicked to take two cocktails before dinner. In Gambling, Actor Cohan visits a crisp tart at her bedizened lodgings and in his offers to pay for the upkeep of herself and them, a suspicion of the most vicious improprieties causes her merely to chuckle...
Another Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...
Died. John Dickinson, 12, of Chicago, grandson of Tart-time Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson; in Chicago; by accidentally hanging himself at play...