Word: tartness
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...that it takes a terrific musician to play it right. It was a very corny book-I realize that-but I couldn't get that violin stuff out of my mind anyway." His enthusiasm for that kind of fiddling practice fades in hopeless embarrassment as soon as the tart snakes out of her dress...
Everybody Gets Rich. Taking a professional skeptic's view of the whole affair, New York Herald Tribune Columnist Red Smith summed it up with a tart comment on who fights who these days and why: "You can't blame Hurley, you can't blame Murphy and you can't blame the promoter [Norris]. Chances are all three will win in the end. Let Matthews be passed up just a little longer, and there'll be such outraged cries from coast to coast that the bout will make everybody independently wealthy...
...grim, dolorous movie about a college English professor (Ray Milland) who loses his wife and child in an explosion and searches for a way to go on living without them. He broods endlessly over the tragedy, finds no solace either in drink or in the advances of a tart (Jean Hagen), finally is brought to face life again through the efforts of an understanding friend (Nancy Davis), whose concern over him almost alienates her fiance (John Hodiak...
South Africa's Prime Minister Daniel Malan celebrated his 77th birthday in Cape Town's House of Assembly. His wife gave him a homebaked, old-fashioned Boer pie, called a "milk tart"; the Nationalist party bigwigs came through with a desk and a black leather briefcase. In return, Africa-Firster Malan pledged once again to cut the Dominion loose from the British Commonwealth. Said he: "We shall become a republic. We must become a republic...
Lorelei Lee is one tart that never seems to go stale. Her crust is as crisp in a Broadway musical today as it was in 1925, when Anita Loos composed her memoirs of a floozy, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Now Author Loos has tried the old recipe again...