Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tastes. When he wants to be nice, which means when he is off the field, Durocher can be a kind of pugnacious Prince Charming-garrulous, tart-witted, persuasive. He talks to kids as though they were grownups. He talks to chorus girls and Powers models as though they were kids. They all like...
...male celebrity who strode into church one midwinter morning wearing sun glasses, Allen grated: "He's afraid God might recognize him and ask him for an autograph." Of a snob-noxious Hollywood character traveling with his "secretary," he murmured acidly: "He's traveling à la tart...
Later in the day Queen Elizabeth scored a personal triumph when she sampled a Paarl housewife's Dutch milk tart. "Ah," said the Queen in Afrikaans, "dis bale goed" (this is very good...
...some . . . made of sanitary Wisconsin cheese, just for you." Mr. Churchill often bounds off into sonorous oratory, uses words like "bloody" and "jolly." Mr. Baruch is a wise elder statesman who can feel things "in his bones." Mr. Hopkins, who represents the frustrated New Dealer, is sincere but tart, and has to be reprimanded by Roosevelt for using the word "stink" in front of Mr. Churchill. Author Franklin, who once worked for the State Department as an economist and was active in psychological warfare during World War II, plays the none-too-modest role of moderator between the Chiefs...
WASHINGTON, January 14--A tart suggestion from Justice Jackson that the Supreme Court is trying to psychoanalyze Congress rather than interpret the law climaxed the historic John L. Lewis contempt case as the court took it under advisement late today...