Word: acidly
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...pink cloth from Mrs. Cordes' porch. The laboratory could find no indications of gas or other chemicals upon it. Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid...
When Jim Reed retired in 1929, an acid flavor, very American, went out of U.S. political life. Bill Borah was a greater orator. But none could surpass Jim Reed in righteous anger or in-as newsmen at the time called it-the "rhinestone rhythm" of his speech. He was the delight of the galleries, the despair and envy of his foes. Woodrow Wilson, often his foe, called him a marplot...
...coffee shop he may, if he is lucky, get the 55? a la carte breakfast in less than an hour's time. But the eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets...
...laboratory animals in small doses, DDT produced poisoning symptoms like those from carbolic acid. It excited the animals' central nervous system, gave them the shivers, paralyzed their feet, finally killed some of them. The poison was cumulative...
Even his best friends disagreed about the Town Crier's real nature. Acid Poetess Dorothy Parker believed he had "done more kindness than anyone I have ever known." Novelist Edna Ferber called him a "New Jersey Nero who mistook his pinafore for a toga." Sometimes his most devoted admirers found his cantankerousness hard to bear. "I find you are beginning to disgust me, puss," he once snarled at a guest. "How about getting the hell out of here...