Word: tartness
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Andrew William Mellon, indignant at an unflattering book about his career (TIME, Aug. 14), issued a tart statement to the Press: "I have tried to read the so-called biography of myself entitled Mellon's Millions. It attributes to me and to other members of my family a fortune of such fantastic and imaginary proportions as to be senseless...
...mere adventure story by a long shot, Anthony Adverse is packed full of shrewd comment, tart gossip, homely saws. Thus Carlo Cibo, Havana epicurean, on young man's estate: "My God! . . . did you ever think what a terrible mess a young man really is? I mean a youth. That is - a kind of portable apparatus or attachment to three troublesome globes, one who has just stopped being a mad boy and has not yet been scared into being a decent man. One feels profoundly sorry for him. The only peace he can get is for a few hours after...
...Paris, several years ago, Peru's President Sanchez Cerro (then a lieutenant colonel) argued the merits of this treaty fiercely with General Vasquez Cobo, charged that it was signed under the influence of bribes. So tart were the General's retorts that Latin friends of the peppery pair said afterward: "They almost fought a duel...
...oldest Deputy opens each new Reichstag, and old people's tongues are tart. Last autumn the 6th Reichstag since the founding of the Republic was opened by drooling Frau Clara Zetkin, 75, "Grandmother of the German Revolution," who screamed Communist abuse of President von Hindenburg, demanded his impeachment (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the new (7th) Reichstag was opened in equally abusive fashion by grizzled, gimlet-eyed, grey-mustached General Karl Litzmann, 82, the Fascist Party's specially acquired official parliamentary oldster...
...Curtis as G. 0. P. leader in 1929. Long a Dry, he ran as a Resubmissionist. Senator-elect Van Nuys, a longtime Democratic worker, favors Repeal and beer. There was a real partisan revenge in the defeat of New Hampshire's Senator since 1919, George Higgins Moses, whose tart tongue has made many a Democrat wince.* Victor over him was Democrat Fred H. Brown, onetime Governor, new Public Service Commissioner. The Brown attack: "Moses is a hireling of the power interests. The Insulls and others paid Moses' campaign expenses. He hasn't been a square-shooter...