Word: tartly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...About Eve. Scripter-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz's tart treatise on how to win fame and lose friends on Broadway; with Bette Davis, Anne Baxter George Sanders (TIME...
Major General Edward Mallory Almond was impatient to hear the latest battlefront news from U.S. military adviser Colonel Sterling Wright. A near-hysterical Korean operator broke into the call. "Oh, save us, save us, General Almond," she wailed. Tart-tongued in moments of exasperation, the Chief of Staff answered: "What in the hell do you think we're trying to do? Whose planes do you think were flying over Seoul today...
...living U.S. poets, none has lodged poems more surely where they will be hard to get rid of. At its best, Frost's crabapple-tart verse distills into the pure liquor of lyric poetry. Stopping by Woods is one of the loveliest poems ever written. Every U.S. schoolboy knows Birches. His lines carry the tone and temper of New England's dour and canny folk, often have the tren chancy and inevitability of folk sayings. Frost has made "good fences make good neighbors"* part of the language. Chores are "doing things over and over that just...
...people-his wife, and it is played with a passion that U.S. movies never seem to find in married couples who have school-age children. In the other woman (Patricia Neal), who gets nowhere with Morgan, the script fashions an acid, quip-studded portrait of a smart tart on the make...
...Human Top,' much less see it whirl ... I hope that this will be a warning to you and to many other credulous gentlemen not to take seriously . . . the sensational nonsense that is sometimes published about the so-called Mysterious East." Delhi's Hindustan Times added its own tart postscript: "Our American friends are ... sometimes no better than grown-up children . . . Believe it or not, Americans can believe anything...