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Along with another acerb little volume, Gore Vidal's The American Presidency, it can be taken as an ideal chaser to the recent binge of Monicaholism.

From Time Magazine Archive

Put together Donaldson's blunt demeanor and Will's ideological questions on This Week with David Brinkley, and Brinkley, who once seemed acerb, comes out courtly by contrast.

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Lawrence has Pryor's bantam pugnacity, but he lacks the underdog charm, the skewed genius for mimicry and acerb social humor.

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Washington's famed, acerb hostess, "Princess Alice" Roosevelt Longworth, 63, lost her footing in a butcher shop, landed hard, broke her left arm in two places and sprained her ankle.

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With her "mayn't be's" and her "is'es," Sylvie was unconsciously making a habit of the trick of Susan Nipper, but with a kindlier touch to her antitheses than pertained to those of that acerb damsel.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)