Word: tartness
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...biographer of Publisher William Randolph Hearst once asked a Hearst executive, "Who do you suppose will carry on when Hearst passes?" The tart reply: "Whoever is nearest the safe...
Take first, for example, Mr. Sherwood's "Waterloo Bridge". It is a story about an American streetwalker stranded, pending certain Continental hostilities, in London, and a nice doughboy on leave from the Front. The play is obviously contemporary, because it is about War and a tart. Of course, just as our modern stage ladies always turn out in the course of the play to be tarts, so this tart in the last act becomes a lady. (You must pardon the over-use of the word "tart" in this review, but modern literature has made "lady" or even "woman" seem...
Thirty years ago the talk of Paris was an opera called Louise, the music and libretto by Frenchman Gustave Charpentier. Parisians liked Louise because it was about Paris. Paris scenes were painted on the backdrops; a tart Paris bourgeois was its heroine, an impoverished poet its hero. Stage pictures of an old woman ironing or shaking out rugs, young women costumed in shirtwaists and skirts and sailor hats, music written to suggest the whirring of sewing machines-all these seemed then, the most daring realism. Actually Charpentier's opera succeeded because it was tuneful, sentimental...
...slightly tired. She makes them with self-assurance which a more expert player would know how to conceal. They are very good jibes and she is not essential to their success. In the last act, when the scene demands emotional pliancy, you realize that while she has a definite, tart personality, she is not an actress. Robert Williams, as the boy who had once refused her affection, returns to confess his weak, desperate love, to fall sobbing on his knees before her. His performance in this difficult bit is splendidly impetuous and poignant?Hope Williams remains wooden...
Eight months ago tart-tongued persons at Mayfair teaparties glibly quoted "Lord...