Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With everything from a cocktail to a new Scotch tart being named for Lady Alice Scott last week, the austere, technical voice of The Motor rose above the twitter and gush of London society paragraphists. Going to press too early to catch the death of Lady Alice's father which makes it necessary to transform her marriage this week to George V's third son from a public function at Westminster Abbey into a quiet, private affair. The Motor took a knowing Rolls-Royce-eye-view of the royal nuptials thus...
...mail of Massachusetts Registrar of Motor Vehicles Frank A. Goodwin turned a letter from Mrs. Constance Lodge Williams, daughter of the late Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. Tart Mrs. Williams wanted to know why the Registrar had not "disciplined" John & James Roosevelt for driving through a red light into a train last month (TIME...
...line of Rupert Brooke, but is otherwise harmless--there's nothing Brookeian about the play. In smart and sophisticated fashion it tells the story of a great pianist who is as skilled with the ladies as with the ivories. His wife doesn't particularly mind his penchant for tarts but when he finds a cultured and knowing tart she gets worried and decides on strategy...
...very, very pretty Betty Lawford is a bit cinematic as the defeated tart and Frances Maddux does well although her main talent for singing naughty ballads is quite dragged in by the heels. Jane Bancroft (one of the local debbies) does rather nicely as Ella, the serving girl--a democratizing experience, no doubt. John Root's stage so is a magnificent variation on the duplex apartment idea...
Accordingly, last fortnight, Otis & Co. dispatched a tart letter to most of Goodrich's 24,000 stockholders. Excerpts...