Word: trenchantly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republican Covered Wagon just as it has crossed Recent Election River. The perplexed Elephant turns to Driver Cal, asking: "Now, where's that half-breed guide of ours gone ?" And Cal replies : "Search me ! He was in the wagon until we got safely across the river." But the trenchant pen of the cartoonist* discovers the "half-breed guide"-and what does he wear but the face of Mr. Borah?-hiding behind the brush and whispering to the prowling savages who wear insurgent feathers in their topknots...
...discerning eye. The front and back pages were completely wrapped in pictures. Within, tiny stories, mostly of the human-interest-scandal-crime variety, lay side by side, like meek sardines, while over all and through all, garnishing and epitomizing, were scattered photographs, comic strips, drawings. The headlines were trenchant: "No Rabbits," "She Must Pay," "Marry Me," "Hero Sued." It happened that the first issue of the Mirror coincided with the first day of the Democratic Convention. The politics of the Convention were disposed of promptly on the second page, terminating in less than a short column by bumping into...
TARNISH-The trenchant, middle-class tragedy of loving unwisely and too often...
...paper. Under him as editors were Carl Schurz (hero of the German revolution of 1848, and one of those who helped to nominate Lincoln in 1860), and E. L. Godkin (founder of The Nation, and generally admitted to be the ablest literary critic of his time, although his trenchant pen also turned to politics). Godkin's largest reputation was gained in the bitter and successful fight that he made against Tammany-he was a "fighting editor." After Schurz and Godkin, followed Horace White and Rollo Ogden...
...failure of the Dardanelles campaign Mr. Churchill's veiled invective is brilliantly trenchant. He says: " We may pause to survey the scene on both sides of the front this sunny August afternoon...