Word: tartness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President was in a lively mood at a party celebrating the 90th birthday of Alice Roosevelt Longworth. When his wife Pat gave the tart-tongued daughter of Theodore Roosevelt two jars of Iranian caviar, Nixon indiscreetly confided that it was a gift "from the Shah to Pat and from Pat to you." Advised by the President to "eat it with a spoon," the irrepressible Mrs. Longworth replied: "I'll wallow in it"-an allusion to Nixon's celebrated comment: "Let others wallow in Watergate." Asked later about the party, Nixon's Watergate resentments surfaced in an attack...
...network, although it's obvious that they knew that we were filming Fanning." (Asked on the show whether CBS was "buying" his opinion, Fanning says: "It just plain isn't true. In the first place, all the networks do it.") Reporter Mike Wallace offers some tart, on-the-air criticism of his network: "Ironically, while employees of CBS News are forbidden to go on junkets, the public relations people in another CBS division are busy setting up such junkets...
...desperate degrading of her memory, James had made love to a fat tart "with the face of a baby doll" night after night in the private compartment next to his dead mother. At the end of the journey, he was too drunk even to attend her funeral. As Josie realizes, the only thing James wants from her is the temporary peace of absolution. She cradles him like a lost child, knowing that death alone can absolve...
...skit on me." So said Matriarch of Modern Dance Martha Graham, 79, who is best known for her spare interpretations of Greek tragedies. But then splinterbug Graham played two shows a day on the Phantasia circuit in the early twenties. Now on a lecture/concert tour, Graham also had some tart things to say about the Metropolitan Opera's former general manager Sir Rudolf Bing. "He had a misconceived notion of the purpose of dance," said Graham, who maintains that every woman has a touch of Medea and Clytemnestra in her. "He thought of it as fluffy, a superficial sort...
Over plates of hot Italian sausage and tart green peppers, some 500 enthusiastic supporters awaited the arrival Monday night of their idol, Alfred E. Vellucci, an incumbent candidate for Cambridge City Council...