Word: tartness
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...flushed, stormed off the tee. Last week, with the McCormick suit settled for $65,000, she turned on Major Fleischmann. Suing in Manhattan for slander, she told what she overheard: "On the practice tee, Major Fleischmann, in a loud voice, stated . . .: 'What do you think of our blackmailing tart? No lady ever brings a suit for breach of promise. Only a chorus girl does this'". Argued Mrs. Doubleday: "This statement was intended to impute unchastity to me. . . . I am of good family. . . . I have entertained the Prince of Wales. . . ." For the "dastardly slander" she asked...
Wrote Scripps-Howard's tart, smart Westbrook Pegler: "There is a sentimental, silver-threads-among-the-gold tradition that people of 60 years and up are uniformly wise and sweet and kind, and also pathetic. There is a conspiracy to write off all the laziness, incompetence, wastefulness and all-around uselessness of which they may have been guilty . . . while they were putting in their time. The Townsend Plan makes no discrimination. It would pension, at the rate of $200 a month, a vast number of itchy old loafers who never were willing to pack their own weight and earn...
...said at Gettysburg that the New Deal could all be accomplished within "the broad and resilient phrases of the Constitution." Maybe he's not so sure now. At any rate, Congress may have abdicated, but the Court goes on forever, despite criticisms from labor, brain (?) trusters, and a certain tart constitutional lawyer...
...Pittsburgh last week during the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting (see p. 50) Dr. Hooton delivered a tart ultimatum : "What we must avoid is a progressive deterioration of mankind as a result of the reckless and copious breeding of protected inferiors. We have not the knowledge to breed supermen, but we can limit the reproduction of criminals and mental defectives. Let us cease to delude ourselves that education, religion or other measures of social amelioration can transform base metal into gold. Public enemies must be destroyed-not reformed...
Thus, with tart wisdom in his spoofing, Dr. Herbert Levinstein, president of the British Institute of Chemical Engineers, addressed last week at Bristol the Royal Institute of Chemistry. As a chemist, he scoffed at "the popular fallacy that to blow combatants to bits with high explosives is less bestial, wicked and cruel than to attack them by gas." President Levinstein strongly implied that rather than be blown to bits he would prefer to die gassed...