Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nebulous as it was ambitious: to examine the global hopes & fears for a postwar free press. They expected-and got -two-faced answers and open suspicion of U.S. motives from politicians, the support of editors everywhere. Their own 40,000-word report on their 40,000-mile travels was tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University's owlish, gadabout Carl...
...gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young man in trouble, mixes talent and overemphasis in about equal parts. Hit of the show: Rosalind Ivan, having herself a high old time as the cockney tart's earthy, evangelistic mother...
Lillian Hellman, tart-tongued problematic playwright, home from a four-month visit in the U.S.S.R., brought a startlingly simple solution to a major postwar problem: at the front she said she met "high-ranking Red Army men" who asked her what the U.S. is going to do about Argentina. When she countered, "What is Russia going to do about Franco?", the officers told her they would handle fascism in Europe, hoped the U.S. would do the same on this side of the world. Although Miss Hellman did not get to see Stalin, she did become one of the very...
Cancy and His Tart. Cancy enjoyed being marshal. He had more money than ever before; ladies bowed to him in the street. He was not supposed to touch liquor, but once in a while he would stop at a friend's house for a few slugs. He took up with a smooth little tart named Julie, who showed him the gay life on a visit to the state capital. Nobody but Editor Mabry and his son seemed to bother about the new marshal's goings-on. Cancy had the Negroes so scared that they would hardly venture...
...Educational Hobos?" A recent Army survey indicated that approximately 650,000 servicemen expect to go to college after they are discharged. But even this bonanza may not be an unmixed blessing. University of Chicago's tart President Robert Maynard Hutchins voiced his fears in a Collier's article last fortnight. Excerpts...