Word: tartness
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...Representatives by the Administration called for repeal of the mandatory embargo on arms exports. But isolationist Congressmen amended it to read very much like the 1935-36 Nye legislation. This palpable defeat for Roosevelt and Hull was hailed by verbal fireworks in Rome and Berlin. Fascist glee provoked a tart "I-told-you-so" from the President, who promptly called upon the Senate to reverse the House...
Even down here in the heart of the Sugar Bowl we know that you've just got to have nice, sour lemons to make good lemonade. Give Mr. Harper his lump sugar, but continue making the rest a little on the tart side for us good-natured fellows...
There is no malice in this. It is just Dr. Conklin's tart way of speaking. He regards science as a vast cooperative enterprise in which it is difficult to find the real beginning of anything, and he is sure that too many textbooks attach personal labels to epochal discoveries. No one has the faintest idea who invented the wheel, the pulley, the boat, the sail. And who really invented those later marvels, the friction match, the barometer, the airplane, the steamboat...
...this inconsequential libretto, Menotti added a fluffy, flippant, craftsmanlike score, bristling with tart melodies and limpid orchestration. NBC's studio audience of critics and musical celebrities guffawed, applauded and went home certain: 1) that Composer Menotti had turned out another operatic bestseller, 2) that he was still the most promising young composer on today's operatic horizon...
Senatorial courtesy is the custom by which Presidential appointees "personally offensive or obnoxious" to Senators from their State are not confirmed by the Senate. Last week Virginia's tart old Carter Glass and his junior colleague, Harry Flood Byrd, found obnoxious the appointment of Judge Floyd Roberts of the Corporation Court of Bristol to a Federal District judgeship. Reason: he had "lent himself to a conspiracy," of which the other partners were Governor James H. Price and Franklin Roosevelt, to flout the Glass-Byrd patronage prerogative. The Judiciary Committee thumbs-downed Judge Roberts, 15-to-3. The Senate concurred...