Word: trenchant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with chucklers about summer people (Mary's Neck), helped...
Died. Alfred G. Gardiner, 80, author of trenchant political analyses and humorous homilies (under the pen name: "Alpha of the Plough"), longtime editor of London's now-defunct Daily News; at Princes Risborough, England...
...Clergyman's Daughter), Orwell contributes (in Britain) to his schoolmate Critic Cyril Connolly's highbrow monthly Horizon and to the leftist Tribune. In the U.S. his London Letter to Manhattan's Trot-skyoid quarterly Partisan RevIew has contained some of the war's most trenchant reporting on British politics, the Home Guard (Orwell was a member), black-market shenanigans...
...suggest that Governor Dewey open a meeting with God Bless America, resounding in true Tibbett style. Then he could follow with a few trenchant remarks. Next, Shortenin' Bread. After ten minutes more of speaking in his resonant voice, he could end with Home on the Range, our President's favorite. A three-ring circus? I wager he would have them standing in the aisles...
...trenchant order Franklin Roosevelt averted a revolt in his own War Labor Board...