Word: stung
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...been as wildly praised, as furiously attacked. Mrs. Chester Dale, famed collector, writes of Picasso: "Like a god, he destroys Nature itself when the impulse seizes him and recreates it in a new and more wonderful form which he has discovered." Hearstwriter Brisbane of the New York Evening Journal, stung to rage by a Picasso abstraction, reproduced it last fortnight, added, "You feel ashamed for the human race when you realize that stuff as this [sic] is actually shown and bought by people supposed to be sane...
...days ago I attended the Harvard-Princeton baseball game, and once more I was impressed by the dismal ineffectiveness of the three "Princetons!" at the end of the locomotive cheer it sounded like a triple iteration of: "We're Stung!" Indeed there is another, and still more unfavorable connotation, but since the latter is totally unfitted for ears polite I am unable to be more explicit...
Demurely Mme Litvinov replied: "Why, Lord Cushendun, haven't you heard? I am a Russian now. My husband is assistant commissar of foreign affairs." As though stung by a hornet, Lord Cushendun recoiled, never thereafter greeted Mme Litvinov more enthusiastically than by a curt nod. From the London standpoint she is a Tory journalist gone wrong, and "Mr. Harrison" should have remained a traveling salesman...
...Have Not Surrendered!" That anyone should have misinterpreted his words seemed to Mr. Baldwin willful, diabolic. Like a large, well-meaning cow stung by a hornet, he charged into the House H of Commons, defied Mr. Churchill to wrest the party leadership from him, made a great speech, an English speech, a speech to wring tears from honest eyes...
...long been heartily damned by the cognoscenti, though unlike the crashed bank, nothing could possibly be more respectable than the academy. Last week the National Academy of Design flung wide its doors for a 106th annual exhibition. A great many people crowded in. Last November, stung by the scorn of younger critics, the Academicians and their Associates limited the show to their own works. This display of energy was not maintained last week. Beside the exhibits of 75 N. A.'s. and 79 Associates, works were accepted from 199 proletarians...