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When he feels he is being pushed around, Harry Truman can be tart. He got that feeling last week at his press conference. It began when he announced his plans for the Army-Navy game. He liked the game as much as anybody, he said, but he didn't want to be in the show. So this year he would sit on the Army side for the whole game, next year on the Navy side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Faint Edge | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...list of questions in the hope of getting a story on her reactions to being a President's wife. Last week, when the female reporters called on Mrs. T.'s two secretaries, they were rewarded by a fascinating piece of Trumaniana-the First Lady's terse, tart and revealing answers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Mrs. T., by Mrs. T. | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...Hollywood, Edith Gwynn's "Rambling Reporter" is called an orange-juice column. Its citrus-tart gossip, cinema news and gags are usually gulped at the breakfast table along with the columns of Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: House Detective | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

Died. Arthur Mastick Hyde, 70, tart-tongued Secretary of Agriculture under Hoover (1929-33), second Republican Governor of Missouri (1921-25), lifelong Prohibitionist; of cancer; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 27, 1947 | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

Pablo Picasso has written a play-in six short acts-about The Two Little Doggies (who make one big dog) and their friends Fat Anguish, Skinny Anguish, The Round End, The Big Foot, The Onion, The Tart (pastry), Silence and The Curtains. The cast is now looking for a home on Broadway for fall occupancy, but may have difficulty finding one. The play, Le Désir Attrapé par la Queue (Desire Caught by the Tail), is concerned chiefly with food and sex. The Tart is onstage almost continually in nothing but a pair of stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Food, Sex & Volcanoes | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

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