Word: tartness
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...Gumbel, the Hitlerites had their quickest wit, their loudest mouth closed up for a week. By government order Der Angriff, Nazi organ, was suppressed for "inciting to disobedience and resistance against the State." Editor of Der Angriff is Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, a gnomelike little man with a tart tongue and a club foot, who appeared from nowhere about two years ago, rapidly rose to be Fascist deputy, editor of the party organ and one of the right-hand men of Adolf Hitler. Herr Hitler attended Dr. Goebbels' wedding last winter. Fortnight ago when the Nazis were venting their rage...
...Ottawa tart-tongued John Bromley, Council chairman of the Trades Union Congress of Great Britain (representing 3,700.000 workers), sounded off before the official Delegations arrived: "Why not set up a permanent secretariat to continue into the future what few tottering steps this Conference may take...
Toast after toast was downed in Soviet champagne. The Passfields were started out on a circular luxury tour of Russia, just such a tour as threw Mr. Shaw into panegyrics. Last week the circle was completed, the Lord & Lady returned to Moscow and tart-tongued Beatrice Webb spoke...
...minority, none of them need to do it!" Whether plain, elderly Beatrice Webb knew it or not, the Soviet Powder, Perfume, Rouge & Lipstick Trust is managed by the young, pretty, blonde wife of Premier Molotov (TIME, June 13), close friend of young, brunette Mme Stalin. For good measure tart Beatrice Webb added: "Some of the young women I saw at Caucasian seaside resorts were dressed far too smartly." Shrewd Sidney Webb kept mum. The Soviet censor passed Beatrice Webb's blurt...
...Excitedly at Karlsruhe met three South German champions of states' rights: Premier Dr. Heinrich Held of Bavaria; Premier Dr. Eugen Bolz of Wurttemberg, Premier Dr. Christian Schmitt of Baden. Bending over a small table, so that their heads nearly touched, South Germany's spokesmen drafted a long, tart telegram to President von Hindenburg, himself a Prussian. Whatever its ultimate effect, the immediate result of this wire was to make the von Papen Cabinet shorten their reactionary sails and steer a more cautious course...