Word: tartness
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Replying to criticisms that during six months the British neither mined nor fortified Crete's airfields against German attack, Prime Minister Churchill said: "I could give answers to those questions, but I do not propose to discuss tactics here." Tart and testy, he suggested that any critic whose mind was focused on the small island of Crete was being very small-minded indeed. Crete, he declared, was "only one part of an important and complicated campaign being fought in the Middle East. To select one particular sector of our widely extended front for Parliamentary debate is a partial, lopsided...
...Flame of New Orleans (Universal). The gay and adventurous tart has given many a cinemaddict 90 minutes of release and fun. In The Flame of New Orleans Marlene Dietrich, fresh from the sultry antics of Seven Sinners and under the direction of famed French Director Rene Clair (Le Million), rides again...
...lined papoose bag slung over her shoulder. This time people learned she is so sensitive she blushes and buries her face in her hands when she blows a line. Before the camera she becomes so intense her stomach often rumbles nervously. Currently occupied as the saloon tart in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, she reports: "It's a nice change. You know, in Hollywood it's like being in a cage; they thrust the parts through the bars, and you take what they give...
...well on the farms of Canada's great West. She looked exactly like what she was, the wife of a poor farmer, tired, badly dressed, with broken nails and an ill-fitting set of store teeth. As an M.P. she has spruced up considerably, but keeps her tart oratorical ability. Typical was her maiden speech: "I feel very much qualified to speak upon this question of relief because for three years I have lived upon relief. I had to feed a family of five-listen carefully-upon $11.25 a month." The family she referred to is made...
...into the realm of the infinitesimally small. Using magnetically focused electron beams instead of light beams, it discloses details (of germs, chemicals, etc.) 20 or more times finer than can be seen with optical microscopes (TIME, Oct. 28). Fortnight ago its beams cleared up another dark corner. In Rochester, tart, smart, British-born Charles Edward Kenneth Mees, head of research at Eastman Kodak Co., announced it had upset old notions of how silver is distributed in photographic films...