Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Ernie Bevin, such tart criticism was beside the point. His task, getting tougher by the day, was still to keep British labor in battle line, and if possible to save himself while doing...
...tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather drunkenly. 'But it is a roof,' Frossia said, pushed the bolt in the small door, supped off a sour milk tart and a hard-boiled egg, got a rug and some shawls out of the sack, snuffed out the candle and slept; a vagabond come back within her own gates...
...over his own 33 Army years, the nation's almost-forgotten soldier was content last week that the U.S. had finally come to recognize the importance of the Chief of Staff's job ("the old Prussian military 'brain trust' system"). Looking ahead, he had some tart advice for the American people...
...student nurses are in the Government-subsidized Cadet Nurse Corps. TIME'S correspondent says that Kansas generally still has enough doctors. Even Wichita, which has boomed from 114,966 to 184,115, can make out-it still has 270 doctors after giving 30 to the services. A few tart Kansas comments came from famed Horse-&-Buggy Doctor Arthur Emanuel Hertzler of Halstead: "The worst part of this doctor shortage from our point of view is that people will find out how well they can get along if left alone. . . . There is hospital space for adequate care if you keep...