Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year the Turks have lived, uneasy but defiant, under a Soviet threat. This week they moved a long way toward the democratic nations. They did not ask the West for help, nor did they send another tart note to Russia; they simply held an election-their first really free...
...philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...
Hannen Swaffer, peninsula-nosed old bonebag who rattled out such fee-faw-fum dramatic criticism that London's Laborite Daily Herald turned him loose on the Tories, arrived in Manhattan with his hair in its usual bun, his tongue as tart as ever. Two new Swafferisms: 1) on Winston Churchill-"[His] opposition . . . has been childishly futile"; 2) on Britain's No. 1 Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank, who attends to Methodism no less than moneybags-"I don't think there is any Methodism in his madness...
...Indiana, where Republicanism's shell is hard as a turtle's, tart, redheaded Representative Charles Marion La Follette (third cousin of Wisconsin's Bob and Phil) is the "Wild Jackass." Elected to Congress in 1942, Lawyer La Follette has startled his G.O.P. colleagues by voting for New Deal measures, dismayed them by lectures on the evils of states' rights...
...show, and reported it, in pure Kiepurese: "The public love oss. They dizagree with the critics. The onjost critics hurts only wahn person-his poblisher and himself!" Wilson showed a flair for punch leads: "John Steinbeck said what the hell, he'd see me." He asked tart old H. L. Mencken at the Stork Club why he lived in Baltimore. Replied Mencken: "I need peace. I live in a remote slum surrounded by lintheads, okies and anthropoids ... far from where the respectable profiteers live." Earl Wilson's current ambition is to write "some thing serious, like John...