Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...scholar (Oxford, Heidelberg, etc.), a Midwesterner who looks like a transcendent ward boss and has also been described as a "wandering behemoth." Friend Pepe is black-haired, blue-eyed, impeccable Pedro Francisco Domecq, Vizconde de Almocaden, U.S. representative of his family's ancient (1730) Spanish sherry business, whose tart, fluent radio style amiably betrays his delight at becoming a teacher...
...eliminating WPA and the food-stamp plan and trimming other expenses, the President reduced the budget for "normal" expenditures to $4,124,000,000 (36% less than in 1939). Chances are that this cut will not satisfy the Congressional economy bloc, led by Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd, which has a shrewd suspicion that many former peacetime expenditures are now masquerading in the war budget. Said the President, anticipating criticism: "I shall be glad to cooperate with the Congress in effecting further reductions...
...also been-on his own hook and at risk of his job-the No. 1 drumbeater for the all-out war expansionists in their fight with OPM slowpokes. In the days when OPM's Bill Knudsen assured President Roosevelt that production was 100% good, and Virginia's tart Senator Harry F. Byrd shouted that it was 100% bad, Coy knew that Byrd was closer to the truth-and said so all the way to the top. For this he went deep into the doghouse for a while, but he finally won. OPM gave way to WPB; the expansionists...
...mother, Edna Woolman Chase, editor of Vogue, was "crusading against fashions for the young." As soon as she could, she bought herself a gold lace negligee with pink marabou feathers "of which Mother remarked, with the candor which has always distinguished her, that it was a tart's idea of heaven." Then Mother gave her a choice of more school or a trip to Europe...
...Senator's tart observation: "Congress is like a burglar running with his swag, who gets caught at the edge of town, hands over the loot gracefully and says, 'Here it is, boys; I didn't think you could catch...