Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Maureen O'Sullivan. Still later Vivien Leigh studied dramatics. Married in 1932 to Barrister Leigh Holman (whose first name plus her own first name she uses for a stage name), she has a little girl. After The Mask of Virtue, in which, says Cinemactress Leigh, "I played a tart," she had small parts in Fire Over England...
...three Cabinet posts, Davis' confidant. Called "the Mephistopheles of the Rebellion," connected with many a shady deal in speculation and filibustering, Benjamin boasted that no letter of his would be found when he died. Only a few were. Yet he was thought charming by Mrs. Chestnut, "that tart memorialist of Southern statesmen," who declared that "the Confederacy has been done to death by the politicians." After a harrowing flight from Richmond, he became a leader at the London...
...Associated Press sent Drew Middleton, United Press Webb Miller. Others were Harold Norman Denny of the New York Times, John O'Donnell of the New York Daily News, William Harlan Stoneman of the Chicago Daily News, the Baltimore Sun's, Frank Richardson Kent Jr. (son of tart Washington Correspondent Frank Richardson Kent). Both the Los Angeles Times and Columbia Broadcasting System were represented by an ex-sportswriter, Bill Henry. National Broadcasting Co. chose 58-year-old Brigadier General Henry Joseph Reilly, U. S. A. (retired), who commanded an infantry brigade in France in World War I. Mutual Broadcasting...
...Plattsburg, N. Y. last week for quadrennial maneuvers of the U. S. First Army were52,000 Regulars, National Guardsmen, Reservists. On and near the Civil War battlefields at Manassas, Va. were 23,000 more, sweating through the maneuvers of the Third Corps Area. All were under the command of tart, brilliant Lieut. General Hugh Aloysius Drum, who lent his games more than their usual news value with a sound-off about the Army as it is, as he thinks it should...
...seldom wrote a song down, let his friends transcribe, collect and publish part of his output. The "Last of the Troubadours" sang of tavern life, of trips to the country, of a ludicrous funeral procession, of his friends Movitz the painter, Mollberg the soldier, Ulla Winblad the kindly tart. A typical song, in minuet tempo, is Movitz Paints Mrs. Bergstrom, which takes two verses to reach a description of its subject...