Word: tartness
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...preludes to develop them later on. The people in Show Boat have characteristic motifs just as Wotan and Siegfried have theirs in the Ring operas. Cap'n Andy Hawks has a light, rollicking phrase all his own. Parthy, his New England wife, has a phrase as shrewish and tart as Actress Edna May Oliver's face. Julie, the quadroon, has her tragedy suggested by the mournful notes which introduce "Can't Help Lovin' That Man." Show Boat's choruses are more than an excuse to display pretty faces and legs...
Charges that Japan is recruiting White Russian mercenaries in Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia were made in the Czechoslovak Parliament last week, drew from Acting Foreign Minister Dr. Krofta this tart statement...
...Republican League foes gave themselves up to quiet ironic chuckling at the ghost-laying of Democrats Baker and Roosevelt. "The Reno-like celerity with which Democratic leaders are seeking to divorce themselves from the League of Nations," observed New Hampshire's tart Senator Moses, "is interesting and amusing. . . . Deathbed conversions, however, smack of the theatrical." To this Idaho's Senator Borah piously added: "Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand...
...Forthright, tart-tongued, intellectual, is Daughter Ivy Litvinov. Often a member of Russian delegations in her own right, at Geneva in 1929 she termed U. S. Ambassador Gibson "a contemptible little bounder." A dabbler in literature, she has a mystery thriller to her credit. In Moscow it is her duty to give the best, biggest official parties...
...Herbert Spencer Dickey was back in Manhattan last week from his discovery of the Orinoco's headwaters (TIME, Sept. 28 et ante). Each day he went to his office in the Explorers Club to work on a tart book for which fellow explorers, lounging in the club's red chairs, may denounce him. To be published this winter, the book is a denunciation of expeditions, particularly those to South America. Dr. Dickey considers the aims of most expeditions falsely pretentious, insincere. Men go on most of them really for sport, not for science. Their scientific results...