Word: trenchant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most trenchant aspect of this report was that it was made by Dr. Bowman's erstwhile supporters...
...used tellingly the chief weapon at its disposal: the keen sword thrust of reasoned criticism. And behind that thrust are many of Harvard's much talked of "younger men." The Union's fight for the retention of Walsh and Swoezy may have been in vain. But this year's trenchant proposals for tenure reform and complete departmental democracy may cut more ice with the powers that be than the Faculty Committee's exhaustive report on the same subject. The Union's program was not only written for the younger men, but also by the younger...
...Krock was that the cattle-i.e., American people -had plenty of grass but that the "stock is being chivied around" so much by "the Administration's cowboys" that it has grown not only thin but nervous. Concluded Mr. Krock: "Having had this pointed out to him in trenchant Panhandle trope . . . Mr. Roosevelt may begin to believe and apply the blunt Texas counsel." This week it was reported that blunt Texas counsel had turned thumbs down on further deficit spending, that Mr. Roosevelt might take the issue to the microphone...
...their tradition of reviving old favorites of one, two, or three centuries back. "The Henrletta," written in 1887, is probably Howard's greatest work. Consistent with his theory that the master theme of America is big business, he brings forth in this play a tragicomedy of the stock-ticker. Trenchant satire aimed at those for whom business is "health, religion, friendship, love" is the core, "The Henrletta" is well above the level of melodrama, and hence there will be no burlesquing of maudlin morality, but rather a serious rendition of serious social comment, on the theme that has since been...
...concerns itself with an aging trial horse of the ring (Barton MacLane), whose sole remaining barrier to the championship is his own protégé (Actor Morris). In setting the stage for the old trial horse to have his day at last, the story permits itself a few trenchant observations about heavyweight champions who retire to Connecticut farms to read Shakespeare, titled Hollywood hangers-on, and wrestlers-who, in the gruff MacLane lingo, are nothing but a lot of humpty dumpties. What dates The Kid Comes Back even more surely than its two-year-old automobile models...