Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well on the farms of Canada's great West. She looked exactly like what she was, the wife of a poor farmer, tired, badly dressed, with broken nails and an ill-fitting set of store teeth. As an M.P. she has spruced up considerably, but keeps her tart oratorical ability. Typical was her maiden speech: "I feel very much qualified to speak upon this question of relief because for three years I have lived upon relief. I had to feed a family of five-listen carefully-upon $11.25 a month." The family she referred to is made...
...into the realm of the infinitesimally small. Using magnetically focused electron beams instead of light beams, it discloses details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...
Last week tall, tart Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann von Falkenhausen, who as Chiang Kai-shek's chief military adviser once taught Chinese troops to goose-step, took over the military Government of the Low Countries for Adolf Hitler. At the same time Berlin let it be known that Dr. Arthur Seyss-Inquart of Austria and points east, Germany's handy man for disciplining captured countries, would become civil administrator of The Netherlands when the time is ripe...
...annual Handbook of Private Schools, tart old Porter Sargent charged that U. S. universities, led by Harvard, were leading a propaganda parade...
...shouting about Frenchman Simenon in U. S. mystery circles is well justified by these two novelettes. Liberty Bar finds Inspector Maigret at Antibes, in the curious business of Madame Jaja, Sylvie the tart and dead Mr. Brown. In The Madman of Bergerac, Maigret jumps off the careening Paris-Bordeaux express, is promptly shot. Convalescing in a provincial town, he mixes into the local murders and scandals, which are something for a town that size. Refreshing stories, very French...