Word: tartness
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From War Secretary Stimson came a prompt, tart reply. The point system would not be revised until next year, and, moreover, the War Department did not intend to increase its present rate of discharges. Said Henry Stimson: "We shall not let any man go whose going jeopardizes the lives of the men who remain to fight." Rudderless Ship. The size of the Army had the most direct bearing on reconversion, which was the second problem roiling the domestic scene. To all intents & purposes, reconversion was stalled. In a sizzling report, the Senate Investigating Committee had called on the Office...
...first the committee had felt disposed to blame only one of the club's 1,550 members. But regretfully they had come to the conclusion that more were involved. If the revelation did not shame the culprits into decent behavior, said the tart letter, the committee would not hesitate, under Rule 29, to invoke the extreme penalty: expulsion from the club for unbecoming conduct...
...time the new court had demonstrated a capacity to defy precedent and also to reverse itself (as in the Jehovah's Witnesses case), Justice Roberts had plunked down a few tart phrases of his own. Said he: the Court had now set forth on an "uncharted sea of doubt and difficulty"; some of its decisions were like a "restricted railroad ticket, good for this day and train only...
...nebulous as it was ambitious: to examine the global hopes & fears for a postwar free press. They expected-and got -two-faced answers and open suspicion of U.S. motives from politicians, the support of editors everywhere. Their own 40,000-word report on their 40,000-mile travels was tart and sensible. Overall impression : facts are going to have as hard a time as ever getting around after the war. The traveling threesome, representing the American Society of Newspaper Editors, were the New York Herald Tribune's kindly, pipe-chewing Wilbur Forrest, Columbia University's owlish, gadabout Carl...
...gets the coal dust off his face. Another newcomer, Joan Lorring, as a hysterical little cockney slut who gets herself and the young man in trouble, mixes talent and overemphasis in about equal parts. Hit of the show: Rosalind Ivan, having herself a high old time as the cockney tart's earthy, evangelistic mother...