Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such talk moved the New York Times's tart Columnist Simeon Strunsky to remark: "Perhaps . . . Pravda will better understand what we mean by freedom of the press if we say it is a state of things, roughly speaking, in which Lenin [for five years, even with interruptions], could publish a Bolshevist newspaper...
Just before wartime baseball wobbled offstage, the American League produced its first no-hit, no-run game since 1940. The Philadelphia Athletics' 23-year-old Dick Fowler, making his first »tart since getting a Canadian Army discharge, confounded the-St. Louis Browns with a cagey mixture of sliders and fast balls. He struck out six, walked four, allowed only five balls to be hit beyond the infield. Afterwards, the 6 ft. 4 in. hurler telephoned his wife: "I did it, honey...
From War Secretary Stimson came a prompt, tart reply. The point system would not be revised until next year, and, moreover, the War Department did not intend to increase its present rate of discharges. Said Henry Stimson: "We shall not let any man go whose going jeopardizes the lives of the men who remain to fight." Rudderless Ship. The size of the Army had the most direct bearing on reconversion, which was the second problem roiling the domestic scene. To all intents & purposes, reconversion was stalled. In a sizzling report, the Senate Investigating Committee had called on the Office...
...first the committee had felt disposed to blame only one of the club's 1,550 members. But regretfully they had come to the conclusion that more were involved. If the revelation did not shame the culprits into decent behavior, said the tart letter, the committee would not hesitate, under Rule 29, to invoke the extreme penalty: expulsion from the club for unbecoming conduct...
...time the new court had demonstrated a capacity to defy precedent and also to reverse itself (as in the Jehovah's Witnesses case), Justice Roberts had plunked down a few tart phrases of his own. Said he: the Court had now set forth on an "uncharted sea of doubt and difficulty"; some of its decisions were like a "restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...