Word: tartness
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Suppressed in Germany but released throughout Britain was a sensationally tart note in which His Majesty's Government broached to the German Government flat charges that Dr. Schacht has so manipulated the Reichsbank's balances of foreign exchange as to have set up "a hidden reserve equal to many times the amount of interest on the Dawes and Young loans" lately repudiated by Dr. Schacht (TIME, June 25). The British note, probably the stiffest yet signed by Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon, accused the Reichsbank by inference of falsifying its statistics and branded Dr. Schacht as a willful...
...announced that he would attempt to secure Mr. Mellon's indictment for tax crockery (TIME. March 19). So cocksure was he of his case that, in the public mind, the onetime Secretary of the Treasury, aged 79, was already behind the bars. In answer Mr. Mellon made two tart statements, one charging "politics of the crudest sort.'' the other declaring that he was being "railroaded" without the customary chance to refute the Government's tax claims. Last week he purred contentedly: "The fact that the grand jury reached a sound conclusion, notwithstanding the unusual methods pursued...
...sent to Washington where he remained until 1925, when the Scudders recalled him to Newark to take complete charge of their newspaper in fact if not in name. He was a crack Washington correspondent, would have made a crack politician. Alert, shrewd, tart, he took no windy nonsense from any Senator. From his desk in the Colorado Building he could gather news direct by telephone from practically every Government official in town except the President...
...closed after seven performances. Whatever Playwright Lawson had in mind when he wrote Gentlewoman is lost, like his heroine, in words, beautiful but superfluous. Its most interesting character is a lewd wench (Claudia Morgan) who seduces the hero in the second act and gives the heroine a tart outline of a happy future: "I'll end in a Westchester cottage and torture my husband by being frank about my past...
Helen Retires is a leftover from the onetime best-selling Helen of Troy, which made Writer Erskine's fame. The opera starts with Menelaos' funeral banquet and Helen as tart a widow as ever she was in the novel. Though she has been loved. she has never known love's madness. So she sets out to find Achilles on the Island of the Blest. Act I ends with movies showing a diving submarine and in Act II Helen uses an elevator to complete her descent to the netherworld. There the warrior-ghosts have taken on ectoplasmic shapes...