Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...labor dream of "one big union" appeared to have vanished for good last week. In a tart letter to top A.F. of L. chieftains, C.I.O. President Philip Murray announced that the vision had fled. Said Murray...
Crab Apple Jelly contains a dozen simple, tart tales of the men, women & children of Cork and Kerry. The townsmen - clerks, shopkeepers, shabby priests, students, girls who dream of America - live in a retired world of mahogany cabinets with glass fronts, gilt mirrors with cupids, sets of the History of the Popes, cheap alarm clocks on bedside tables. Snatches of whiskey, poteen or brandy turn them from sighs to smiles in the wink of an eye. Back of them are the old stone farms and grey walls of their childhood-homes huddled away on islands in the middle of lakes...
...Surrey which he calls "The Nest." Each week, an army of Britons (including Winston Churchill) regularly read Nat Gubbins' column "Sitting on the Fence" in Lord Beaverbrook's Sunday Express. There Britain's most popular columnist sets out, through various mouthpiece characters (including himself) his often tart, always British comments on his life and hard times...
Under the stress of challenging scarcity, Harvardmen have displayed to a remarkable degree the rugged stuff with which their pioneer forbears subdued a wilderness. Like the frontiersmen of old, they sit around on tart December nights and tell of adventures in the search for subsistence...
Nancy Astor, Britain's tart-tongued, opinionated, Virginia-born peeress-politico, first woman to sit in the House of Commons, announced that she would retire from 25 years of politics at term's end, confided, "I will not fight the next election because my husband does not want me to. ... I am bound to obey. Is not that a triumph for men?" Said, her husband, Lord Astor: "When I married Nancy, I hitched my wagon to a star. When she got into the House I found I had hitched my wagon to a sort of V-2 rocket...