Word: trenchant
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...Republic was a shade too theoretical. When he returned to the U. S. he soon left the New Republic for the late great New York World, as assistant and heir to the late and even greater Editor Frank I. Cobb. whose editorials provided for years the most trenchant criticism of what would now be called Old Deal Republicanism...
...Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow, read from the Psalms and from Science & Health by Mary Baker Eddy (Nelson Eddy is no kin), recited the Lord's Prayer and a trenchant 48-word eulogy. The body was then taken to a $25,000 mortuary chamber purchased by William Powell, the inconsolable actor who was to have become Miss Harlow's fourth husband. Thus was concluded another notable interment at the institution which Promoter Hubert Eaton has made as indispensable...
...Grand National). Hero of this five-reel sport feature is one Wallace Caswell, captain of the fishing schooner Princess and constable of Panama City, Fla. Caswell. according to Lowell Thomas, whose commentary is dubbed into the silent film shot on board the Princess, conceived as a boy so trenchant a disdain for sharks, turtles, sawfish and other sea killers that upon reaching manhood he dedicated himself to slaughtering them singlehanded, using no other weapon than a fish knife...
...about the 'pillage' of Church property [in Soviet Russia] and protest against such 'sacrilege' in the name of religion, every class-conscious English worker must be laughing in their faces." It was Journalist Radek who, until a few short weeks ago, made for Joseph Stalin trenchant verbal replies to Adolf Hitler, for the Soviet Dictator has had no stomach to speak out himself and risk war with Germany. Of Hitler, scathing Radek has said: "The donkey's ears stick out! His Nazi doctrine is utter humbug. Non sensical!" Last week Communists were saying that should...
...beer was exceeded only by that of his good crony, lusty George links. Never did a public argument arise-the shooting of Edith Cavell, lynching in the South, the hypocrisy of the Billy Sunday school of revivalists - but vivid George Bellows felt impelled to get himself and his trenchant pencil into...