Word: tartness
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Learned Hand served as a federal judge longer than any other man-52 years. His opinions were prodigious, totaled more than 2,000. covering every phase of the law from maritime liens to complicated antitrust cases. His tart observations ("Judges can be damned fools like anybody else") were treasured. On the bench. Judge Hand was a formidable figure, a stocky man with the broad shoulders of his Kentish forebears, glittering eyes under dense brows, and craggy features that might have been carved by Gutzon Berglum. Intolerant of lawyers who strayed from the point or became too verbose. Judge Hand sent...
Poulenc: Sextet for Piano & Woodwind Quintet (Frank Glazer, piano; the New York Woodwind Quintet; Concert-Disc). After 30 years, Poulenc's tart and witty notes still work surprisingly well. Many a composer might envy the piece's weakness: a manner sometimes too glib and an oversupply of ideas...
Proper & English. An American by residence, Miss Hewitt came to dote on Wild West sagas, Civil War exploits. But by citizenship and temperament she remained forever England. She drank Scotch whisky, disguised modesty with a tart tongue, concealed generosity by demanding high standards. She was also properly foresighted. Anticipating her death. Miss Hewitt had mailed her own obituary to Mrs. Ogden Reid, onetime publisher of the New York Herald Tribune...
Listening to the man and watching his antics, some in the world gave him a loud raspberry. Paris' tart-tongued France-Soir compares him to "Marx-not Karl, but Harpo." Yet Brazil's common man calls him "messiah," "the savior," "the healer of our ills." As Quadros flogs his nation along his chosen path, other voices can be heard calling him "paranoiac," "autocrat," "dictator." Rio's Governor Carlos Lacerda, formerly a Quadros supporter, now a bitter critic, once termed him "the most changeable, the most mercurial, the most perfidious of all men ever to emerge in Brazil...
Irma La Douce. Elizabeth Seal is the tenderest tart in this pert musical...