Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Year and a half ago, however, he could justly claim to be the Street's pet aversion-invited to speak before the Bond Club of New York, he produced a caustic tirade which suggested the entire reshaping of investment banking and left his hearers speechless with fury. Among tart Bill Douglas' minor suggestions was that investment trusts take a larger role in underwriting...
...their opinions, but he has not hesitated to announce his belief that more money should be spent on syphilis prevention and less on national defense, that immigration of Austro-German refugees should be facilitated but they should be sterilized before being admitted to the U. S. Last week tart, leathery Major General Moseley, having passed 43 years in the service and two in command of the U. S. Third Army, retired, as all army men must do at 64. News editors were made aware of this routine event by the receipt of four mimeographed sheets...
Urchins distributed this proclamation, as adult Nazis had no relish for the risky job, and many Sudeten Germans bitterly complained that it hardly took "iron nerves" for Konrad Henlein to flee. From Germany came tart reminders that during the World War a certain Dr. Eduard Benes was a political fugitive from the Habsburg Empire. Indeed, he had fled out of Austria at the same obscure border point where Henlein fled...
...huge old mansion on Penn Avenue, rich, widowed Mrs. Hailman almost single-handed keeps up a neighborhood where the Carnegies, Fricks, Heinzes and Mellons built their first palaces, only to move later to more fashionable fields. Socialite but steadfastly Edwardian, Mrs. Hailman dominates the city park system, has a tart tongue for politicians and a tender spot for fellow artists. Several months ago she commissioned young Pittsburgh Sculptor George M. Koren to do a group for her garden. Sculptor Koren produced three earth-spurning, wind-blown nudes symbolizing Pittsburgh's three rivers: the Allegheny, Monongahela and Ohio...
...people will win a total of $250,000 by answering questions about 30 films and writing a 50-word essay. Sample question: "What did Snow White's stepmother coax her to eat in order to cast a spell over her?-a mince pie, an apple, a strawberry tart, or a roast duck?" Sample essay: "Snow White made me feel like a child again. . . ." Print order for the 32-page contest booklet was 50,000,000, roughly one for every other person in the U. S. and Canada who could read...