Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...controversy was the Treasury Department v. the Navy Department. Secretary Mellon wrote a long, tart letter to Secretary Wilbur, reviewing the evidence and refusing to let any blame attach to Coast Guardsman Baylis. A like issue was joined by Navy men in defense of Lieut. Commander Jones. With the Treasury Department on the Paulding's side and with Jones unhappily dead, one of these arguments seemed academic, the other lamentable and futile...
...Tart-tongued Timothy Michael Healy, now retiring as Governor General of the Irish Free State (TIME Dec. 26), sat with suspicious placidness, last week, through a long farewell dinner in his honor at Dublin...
...loves all the citizens of America," New Hampshire's tart Moses, who would rather speak unexpectedly or not at all; Idaho's bearlike Borah...
...body but adept at mellow geniality. Scene: the $375,000 private train of the President of Mexico which puffed all week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another. On board were the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow (onetime Morgan partner), and tart-witted cowboy-clown Will Rogers. They, and other guests of the President, were privileged to see him in playful mood. At Pabellon Ranch, State of Aguascalientes, Senor Calles seated his guests around a bull ring. He had a surprise for them, he said. Quietly picking up a matador...
...goes into history as "the Fess incident." From it, future U. S. Presidents will learn a lesson about the embarrassments of amity. For in spite of President Coolidge's "heat," in spite of a tart suggestion by President Coolidge that Ohio politics* colored Senator Fess's interpretation of the country's "strong demand," Senator Fess continued to predict more freely than ever the renomination of the man he calls on so often...