Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tart-tongued, opinionated Lady Astor made news last week: she publicly spoke up for Russian Communism. Said the Virginia-born viscountess to assembled correspondents interviewing her on the 25th anniversary of her parliamentary career: "Communism in Russia has taught the people to read. A people can't think or reach God until they learn to read. I don't dislike Russian Communism. It has changed the European policy of keeping the people poor and ignorant-look at Spain and Italy...
Last week tart, taciturn Joseph W. Stilwell arrived in Washington from the Far East. He said nothing. His silence was eloquent. For few Americans knew China so well as General Joseph Stilwell. Few understood so well as he the gravity of the crisis dramatized by his recall-its implications for the future fate of China, the U.S., the world...
TIME (May 22) says: "The Pennsylvania Railroad Co.'s tart-tongued president, Martin Withington Clement, was once asked by the Interstate Commerce Commission why he let Manhattan's Kuhn, Loeb & Co. underwrite a Pennsy bond issue. Snapped he: 'I deal with whom I please...
...Englander sent a cheerful note from Tripoli. Here, in a city which, except for some bombed buildings, looks untouched by war, he sat down on a restaurant balcony to a dinner of antipasto, spaghetti with meat sauce, steak and fruit tart. He washed it down with a bottle of sweet, heady wine while the organ-grinder played 0 Sole Mio on the sidewalk below...
...Cordoba Province. Then one night, shortly before Evita was scheduled to go on the air as star of My Kingdom For Love, a version of the Elizabeth-Essex romance, someone in the control room switched on the microphone prematurely. Listeners all over Argentina heard the announcer say: "That tart...