Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first seen Ernest Ansermet (rhymes with ah sir may) and his black, square-cut beard 32 years ago, conducting while Nijinsky danced. It was Ansermet who gave the U.S. its first taste of Stravinsky's tart Petrouchka and Debussy's heady L'Après-Midi d'un Faune...
...tart reply, the State Department pointed out that the original fault lay with U.N. Hasan had entered the U.S. on a student's visa, and thus had no business getting a reporter's job without consulting the U.S. As for Kyriazidis, he was up for deportation because the two papers he had come to the U.S. to represent had been shut down by the Greek government. Nobody had notified the U.S. until after Kyriazidis' arrest, that he had found a new employer, a small Communist weekly in Cyprus. This looked like a dodge to the State Department...
When he feels he is being pushed around, Harry Truman can be tart. He got that feeling last week at his press conference. It began when he announced his plans for the Army-Navy game. He liked the game as much as anybody, he said, but he didn't want to be in the show. So this year he would sit on the Army side for the whole game, next year on the Navy side...
...list of questions in the hope of getting a story on her reactions to being a President's wife. Last week, when the female reporters called on Mrs. T.'s two secretaries, they were rewarded by a fascinating piece of Trumaniana-the First Lady's terse, tart and revealing answers...
...Hollywood, Edith Gwynn's "Rambling Reporter" is called an orange-juice column. Its citrus-tart gossip, cinema news and gags are usually gulped at the breakfast table along with the columns of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons...