Word: tartness
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...speech to the National Press Club, Dunlap warned investigators to lay off lest the public lose confidence in its tax collectors and stop paying taxes. The time has come, said he, "when all of us ... had better draw back and think of the consequences." When this statement brought some tart comments, Dunlap cried foul. He said that his speech should not have been quoted because it was made on an "off the record'' basis...
Director Robert Parrish serves this rehash expertly, pointing up the tart flavor and inventive trimmings of William Bowers' script. In his detective's masquerade as an out-of-town hoodlum roughing his way into the favor of waterfront racketeers. Academy Award Winner Broderick (All the King's Men) Crawford plays a tough guy's tough guy with engagingly sardonic humor...
Subsequently, dishing the Whigs (or as Disraeli put it: "Tory men and Whig measures") has been a basic plank in Tory platforms. Even Britain's Hesketh Pearson relishes nothing more than the tart flavor of a well-dished Whig-and Pearson denies that he is a Tory at all. In his time, he has written sympathetic biographies of such diverse spirits as Dickens, G.B.S., Oscar Wilde and Gilbert & Sullivan. But, Tory or no Tory, Biographer Pearson seems to see eye-to-eye with Dizzy on a great many matters of principle. He is strongly opposed, for one thing...
...Sample dinner menu two years ago: hors d'oeuvres with vodka, soup, shashlik, vegetable, fruit tart, tea, or coffee and chicory...
...tried his hardest to mediate, failed, and was quitting (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS); Norman Richard Seddon, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's harassed chief representative in Iran; and British Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd, who first said Harriman's mission had "not much point," later reversed himself on receiving tart word from London...