Word: trenchant
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Pink-and-White's Grandfather was Lord Randolph Churchill, august, romantic and trenchant, one of the greatest fighting orators the House of Commons ever knew. He it was who introduced U. S. blood into the great house of Churchill by marrying Jenny Jerome of New York. Today the father of pink-and-white is the Conservative party's spearhead in debate, scathing, reckless, romantic Winston Churchill, last year Chancellor of the Exchequer. And all are, of course, descendants of that ruthless and super-successful general, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. Stage-fright might well grip anyone expected...
Smart Winston Churchill, most trenchant Conservative speaker, did not sneak out after Leader Baldwin, but he stayed only to grin in silence while E. F. T. was ripped to tatters by a Welsh terrier and a Yorkshire bulldog, respectively the Right Honorable David Lloyd George (Liberal) and Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden (Labor). From the peers gallery scowled Baron Beaverbrook. Viscount Rothermere was on the Atlantic, en route home from...
...criminals in the world were to become unionized and then go on strike ? Novelist-Playwright Arthur Somers Roche demonstrates in three tedious acts of satire, that virtue would no longer be laudable, police and newsmen would be jobless, numerous industries would totter. His answer is not remarkably trenchant, nor is his playwriting adept...
Robert Henri was not an elegant, sensational painter like the late John Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters...
Last fortnight President Hoover persuaded Alexander H. Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...