Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Arthur Mastick Hyde, 70, tart-tongued Secretary of Agriculture under Hoover (1929-33), second Republican Governor of Missouri (1921-25), lifelong Prohibitionist; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...fiercely partisan Southern Democrat, Martha Truman had a tart opinion on almost everything. Her friends fondly called her "the old rebel," and shamelessly embroidered a tale of how she had said she would sleep on the floor rather than occupy the White House bed that Yankee Abraham Lincoln had slept...
Pablo Picasso has written a play-in six short acts-about The Two Little Doggies (who make one big dog) and their friends Fat Anguish, Skinny Anguish, The Round End, The Big Foot, The Onion, The Tart (pastry), Silence and The Curtains. The cast is now looking for a home on Broadway for fall occupancy, but may have difficulty finding one. The play, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail), is concerned chiefly with food and sex. The Tart is onstage almost continually in nothing but a pair of stockings...
...brought back with him an unfinished canvas of Belshazzar's Feast. Tart-tongued Gilbert Stuart promptly advised him to change the whole perspective. Allston tried. But he never got the picture right. For 25 years, while admiring Harvard students sat at his feet, while Boston's great dropped in at his romantically dusty studio for chats that continued long past midnight, Allston struggled with Belshazzar's Feast. He painted minor works, but kept returning to Belshazzar. Six hours before his death in 1843, he was still at work at it, and getting nowhere...
...received due recognition. . . . [And] to single out Gilmore for a prize in the same year in which Atkinson's work is honored is illogical, for Gilmore's correspondence has been as unrevealing as Atkinson's was revealing-as sugary and soft as Atkinson's was tart and crisp...