Word: tartness
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...city editors in newspaper history who could write a decent paragraph. Last week, a successful rancher and freelancer at 57, Walker turned up in Dallas, 140 miles from his ranch, at the Southwest Journalism Forum. In a rattle of pronouncements on the state of U.S. journalism, he proved as tart as ever. ¶On "objectivity" in newswriting: "It produces something like a symmetrical pile of clam shells with all the succulent goodness carefully removed...
Last week in Manhattan death came to Clarence Birdseye. 69, and ended his restless quest. Behind him he left 300 patents, a characteristically tart self-description: "I do not consider myself a remarkable person. I am just a guy with a very large bump of curiosity and a gambling instinct...
...cuckolded buddy runs his tongue over and over the story of his wife's infidelity with a Russian as if it were an empty tooth socket. A blond fellow soldier of eroded good looks reveals that a brutal sergeant seduced him into homosexuality. Finally, there is a Polish tart and spy so moved by the lines of suffering in Andreas' face that she forgets her trade and plays Bach to him on the brothel piano...
...when the reporters get their own conference, they can feel the TV sting. After Stevenson's Minnesota defeat, reporters squeezed into corner waiting for TV to finish shooting his prepared statement. As they started to question Stevenson, the TV crew made so much noise packing to leave that tart-tongued Columnist Doris Fleeson finally cried: "If the second-class citizens could have some quiet, please...
Next day an equal number packed the same hall to hear the University of Illinois' tart-tongued Neurologist Percival Bailey, a top brain surgeon, dissect the entire psychiatric revolution of the 20th century's first half. Revolutions, Bailey said, "bring change but not necessarily progress." Echoed Cincinnati's Dr. Howard Fabing: "The second half of our century finds us in a swing back to a more orthodox type of medical investigation...